Talk:Soldier's Joy (fiddle tune)

Reference now converted to bare url's? Probably not policy compliant

DAJF your reformatting of ref name is not harmful and not probklematicm but you also seem to have removed detailed reference information, converting for instance ref name= LOC|Library of Congress|American Memory|Soldier's Joy An American Classic|http://lcweb2.loc.gov/afc/afccc/soldiersjoy/ into simply the bare url. The net result is less information. This is not helpful. What is your problem with the more informative reference? Are you troubled that it does not say for instance url=http://xxxxx and simply includes the url as a parameter? If that troubles you, it doesn't seem to be WP policy to strip the url down. Another editor make come along and then complain that they want the more detailed ref. Please do not remove valid information.GeoBard^Semi-retired 00:25, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

Article says "country dance." Shouldn't it be "contra dance?" DanielStolte (talk) 17:49, 13 February 2012 (UTC)

Alternate lyrics collected in Lexington County, SC

Given that whisky, whiskey, and morphine have *always* been more expensive than beer, I'm not sure how the lyrics currently available on the web--here, and elsewhere, including academic sources--have come to put the price "25 cents" for everything. 25 cents was a lot of money during the civil war, and I promise you a mug of beer was *not* 25 cents in any event. *I*, myself, personally remember signs advertising 25-cent draft beer, and I am *not* old. Do your own web search, and you'll see 25 cents for a can or mug of beer was a common market price during the life of your parents, if not your own life.

As I learned the lyrics in the early 1980's in Lexington County, SC via Daniel E. Harmon:

I'm my momma's darlin' boy, oh I'm my momma's darlin' boy, I'm my momma's darlin' boy, Talkin' 'bout soldier's joy!

Ten cents for the morphine, a nickel for the beer, twenty-five cents for the purdy lil girl, that's what brought me here!

I'm not putting this directly on the page since there is no way to properly "cite" my source, since I did not make recordings of jam sessions, which I could upload some place and point to as reference. There was never any mention of whisky (or whiskey) in what I learned in Lexington County, SC. I don't know where Dan learned the tune, or from whence the person(s) from whom he learned it came. The prices seems more in keeping with mid-late 19th-century economy, however, although the prostitute may be a wee bit of a bargain. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.61.201 (talk) 07:11, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Audio file

The audio file, by the North Carolina Hawaiians, sounds to me like either a highly atypical version or a misidentification. It seems to be based on the same chord structure but is a distinctly different melody, to the version played in Scotland at least. Mutt Lunker (talk) 22:37, 3 October 2018 (UTC)