{"id":256,"date":"2009-02-07T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/when-johnny-comes-marching-home.html"},"modified":"2017-02-06T13:48:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T18:48:32","slug":"when-johnny-comes-marching-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/when-johnny-comes-marching-home.html","title":{"rendered":"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Civil War Song: When Johnny Comes Marching Home<\/h2>\n<p class=\"postother\"><em>When Johnny Comes Marching Home,<\/em> is attributed to &#8220;Father Louis Lambert,&#8221; but most likely this is a pseudonym for Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore.<\/p>\n<p>When Gilmore wrote <em>When Johnny Comes Marching Home,<\/em> he was the bandmaster of Union General Benjamin Butler&#8217;s army in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tune of this song may have been written by Gilmore, may be from a Negro spiritual, or may have come from an Irish air. This song is well-known and still popular in our times.<\/p>\n<h2>When Johnny Comes Marching Home<\/h2>\n<p><!-- AMAZON LINK --><object width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/T3k8H_9SjoM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/T3k8H_9SjoM&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0x006699&amp;color2=0x54abd6&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"340\" height=\"285\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>When Johnny comes marching home again,<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll give him a hearty welcome then<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nThe men will cheer and the boys will shout<br \/>\nThe ladies they will all turn out<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n<p>The old church bell will peal with joy<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nTo welcome home our darling boy,<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nThe village lads and lassies say<br \/>\nWith roses they will strew the way,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for the Jubilee,<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll give the hero three times three,<br \/>\nHurrah! Hurrah!<br \/>\nThe laurel wreath is ready now<br \/>\nTo place upon his loyal brow<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n<p>Let love and friendship on that day,<br \/>\nHurrah, hurrah!<br \/>\nTheir choicest pleasures then display,<br \/>\nHurrah, hurrah!<br \/>\nAnd let each one perform some part,<br \/>\nTo fill with joy the warrior&#8217;s heart,<br \/>\nAnd we&#8217;ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! We&#8217;ll give him a hearty welcome then Hurrah! Hurrah! The men will cheer and the boys will shout The ladies they will all turn out And we&#8217;ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,141,29,8,221],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-notes-and-facts","category-other","category-union","category-video","tag-civil-war-music","tag-when-johnny-comes-marching-home"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1653,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nellaware.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}