{"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":"

The Civil War Song: When Johnny Comes Marching Home<\/h2>\n

When Johnny Comes Marching Home,<\/em> is attributed to “Father Louis Lambert,” but most likely this is a pseudonym for Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore.<\/p>\n

When Gilmore wrote When Johnny Comes Marching Home,<\/em> he was the bandmaster of Union General Benjamin Butler’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

When Johnny Comes Marching Home<\/h2>\n

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When Johnny comes marching home again,
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nWe’ll give him a hearty welcome then
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nThe men will cheer and the boys will shout
\nThe ladies they will all turn out
\nAnd we’ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n

The old church bell will peal with joy
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nTo welcome home our darling boy,
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nThe village lads and lassies say
\nWith roses they will strew the way,
\nAnd we’ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n

Get ready for the Jubilee,
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nWe’ll give the hero three times three,
\nHurrah! Hurrah!
\nThe laurel wreath is ready now
\nTo place upon his loyal brow
\nAnd we’ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n

Let love and friendship on that day,
\nHurrah, hurrah!
\nTheir choicest pleasures then display,
\nHurrah, hurrah!
\nAnd let each one perform some part,
\nTo fill with joy the warrior’s heart,
\nAnd we’ll all feel gay when Johnny comes marching home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah! We’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’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,"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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t