Enlist For A Soldier [CD]

Many's the song about enlisting, and the glory of the fight - but these are joined here by those about the mud, the guts, the disillusionment and the despair. Not just pretty old songs about muskets and cockades, swordsmen and battle chargers, but the stark reality of current loss of life in Ireland, and the ridiculous atrocities of the Falklands War. Gunners, light horsemen, female drummers, foul sergeants, conscription and present- day insanities. Three hundred years and more of soldiering songs sung to appropriately stark accompaniment.

1. Dorsetshire Militia
2. The Rochester Recruit
3. The Bonny Light Horseman
4. Peggy And The Soldier
5. The Soldier's Return
6. Old 95th, Young May Moon
7. Will Ye Go To Flanders
8. The Female Drummer
9. The Rout Of The Blues
10. White Cockade
11. The Gentleman Soldier
12. Soldiers Three
13. Dol-L-A
14. The Soldier's Fancy
15. Danny Deever
16. Flowers Of The Town
17. Jamie Foyers
18. D-Day Dodgers, When This Lousy War Is Over
19. The Deadly Wars, General Monk's Goosestep
20. The Shores Of Old Blighty
21. The Soldier
22. Roses In December.