Yankee Soldiers
Stop ST-117 · USA
- Artist
- The Highlanders
- Title
- Yankee Soldiers
- Release
- Yankee Soldiers / Climbing the Walls
- Label
- Stop # ST-117
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- USA
- Songwriter
- C. Trantham, G. Trantham
- Genre
- Country · Country Folk
- Primary theme
- US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs
Annotation
Yankee Soldiers (Highlanders, The) (Stop # ST-117) Country. Draft. Civil war song - released in Vietnam era. Nashville, Tennessee. As I stood in my door...oh, them Yankee soldiers"
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Draft Songs
Yankee Soldiers (Highlanders, The) (Stop # ST-117) Country. Draft. Civil war song - released in Vietnam era. Nashville, Tennessee.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: A band of Yankee soldier walked up to my door / There must have been a hundred or even more / The captain he did smile, his eyes were...hard / He said you're in the army boy / Oh them Yankee soldier, them Yankee soldiers / They spared my life that I might go fight... / At first I thought that I might try to make / My getaway, on second thought I knew / Those soldier weren't there to play / So there I stood half scared to death / As I stood in my door...oh, them Yankee soldiers
Notes
Stop label with stop-sign design, ST-117 (SoN 42652); "Yankee Soldiers" (C. Trantham-G. Trantham), time 2:44, Window Music, Inc., BMI; produced by Pete Drake. [From the record sleeve and labels]
Themes
In collections
Draft Songs · US 'Patriotic' / Pro-Government / Anti-Protest Songs [War Years]