"Soldier's Joy" is a reference to the combination of morphine,whiskey & beer that many late 19th and early 20th-century servicemen(starting in the Civil War era and continuing through WW1) became addicted to after being given morphine for pain.
"Peaches in the summertime/apples in the fall" is from the old American folk song "Cindy",which may date back to the early 1900s.
"The buggies and the hacks" = horses and carriages.
On a more personal note some of the other lyrics really reasonate with me..."wasted on the wayside,wasted on the way"...someone who has wasted and lost their best years on the road of life to hard luck, bad decisions, unfortunate circumstances, substance abuse,etc...then you reach an age where you don't know what to do with yourself anymore and feel wasted, forgotten and left by the wayside.
I think the last lyric is actually "oh darlin',the songs they played/are all I've got left of the love we made"...sometimes old familiar songs are all someone has left to remind them of a better time and place.
LOVE this song...
"Soldier's Joy" is a reference to the combination of morphine,whiskey & beer that many late 19th and early 20th-century servicemen(starting in the Civil War era and continuing through WW1) became addicted to after being given morphine for pain.
"Peaches in the summertime/apples in the fall" is from the old American folk song "Cindy",which may date back to the early 1900s.
"The buggies and the hacks" = horses and carriages.
On a more personal note some of the other lyrics really reasonate with me..."wasted on the wayside,wasted on the way"...someone who has wasted and lost their best years on the road of life to hard luck, bad decisions, unfortunate circumstances, substance abuse,etc...then you reach an age where you don't know what to do with yourself anymore and feel wasted, forgotten and left by the wayside.
I think the last lyric is actually "oh darlin',the songs they played/are all I've got left of the love we made"...sometimes old familiar songs are all someone has left to remind them of a better time and place.