When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again Original Lyrics
| "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" | |
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 Sheet music cover, 1863 | |
| Song | |
| Published | 1863 |
| Songwriter(s) | Louis Lambert a.k.a. Patrick Gilmore |
| Sound sample | |
| c. 1990 U.S. Military Academy Band performance
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"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Roud 6637), sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", is a popular song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the state of war.
Origins [edit]
The lyrics to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" were written past the Irish gaelic-American bandleader Patrick Gilmore during the American Civil War. Its first canvas music publication was deposited in the Library of Congress on September 26, 1863, with words and music credited to "Louis Lambert"; copyright was retained by the publisher, Henry Tolman & Co., of Boston.[1] Why Gilmore chose to publish under a pseudonym is not clear, but popular composers of the menses often employed pseudonyms to add a touch of romantic mystery to their compositions.[2] Gilmore is said to have written the song for his sis Annie as she prayed for the safe render of her fiancé, Union Light Arms Captain John O'Rourke, from the Civil State of war,[3] [iv] [5] although it is not articulate if they were already engaged in 1863; the 2 were not married until 1875.[six]
Gilmore later acknowledged that the music was not original but was, every bit he put it in an 1883 article in the Musical Herald, "a musical waif which I happened to hear somebody bustling in the early days of the rebellion, and taking a fancy to it, wrote it down, dressed it up, gave it a proper noun, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times."[vii]
The melody was previously published around July 1, 1863, every bit the music to the Civil War drinking vocal "Johnny Fill the Basin".[8] A color-illustrated, undated slip of Gilmore's lyrics, printed past his ain Boston publisher, actually states that "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" should be sung to the melody of "Johnny Make full the Bowl".[9] The original sheet music for "Johnny Fill up the Bowl" states that the music was arranged (non composed) past J. Durnal.[ten] There is a melodic resemblance of the tune to that of "John Anderson, My Jo" (to which Robert Burns wrote lyrics to fit a pre-existing tune dating from about 1630 or earlier), and Jonathan Lighter has suggested a connection to the seventeenth-century ballad "The Three Ravens".[eleven]
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" is too sung to the same tune equally "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" and is frequently thought to have been a rewriting of that song. Nonetheless, "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" was non published until 1867, and information technology originally had a different melody.[12]
"When Johnny Comes Marching Habitation" was immensely popular and was sung by both sides of the American Civil War.[xiii] Information technology became a hitting in England as well.[xiv]
Alternative versions [edit]
Quite a few variations on the song, besides as songs fix to the same melody but with unlike lyrics, have appeared since "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was popularized. The alleged larcenous tendencies of some Wedlock soldiers in New Orleans were parodied in the lyrics "For Bales", to the same tune. A British version appeared in 1914, with the similar title, "When Tommy Comes Marching Home". The 1880 U.Southward. presidential election entrada featured a campaign vocal called "If the Johnnies Get into Power,"[15] which supported the Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur confronting the "Johnnies" (Democrats Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English).[16]
Lyrics [edit]
Illustration of a Zouave visitor on Civil War era broadside of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
The original lyrics equally written by Gilmore, are:[17]
When Johnny comes marching dwelling house again
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men volition cheer and the boys will shout
The ladies they will all turn out
And nosotros'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.The old church bong will peal with joy
Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome home our darling boy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The village lads and lassies say
With roses they will strew the way,
And nosotros'll all experience gay
When Johnny comes marching home.Get ready for the Jubilee,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give the hero three times three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The laurel wreath is set now
To place upon his loyal brow
And we'll all experience gay
When Johnny comes marching home.Let love and friendship on that day,
Hurrah, hurrah!
Their choicest pleasures and then display,
Hurrah, hurrah!
And let each one perform some function,
To fill with joy the warrior'south heart,
And nosotros'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.
Some later recordings end each verse with "And nosotros'll all experience glad when Johnny comes marching home."
"Johnny Make full Up the Bowl" [edit]
"Johnny Fill Up the Bowl", which provided the tune for "When Johnny Comes Marching Dwelling", was a topical drinking song that commented on events in the American Civil War. Information technology was ofttimes refitted with new words by soldiers and other publishers.[10]
A satirical variant of "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl", entitled "For Bales" or, more fully, "For Bales! An O'er True Tale. Dedicated to Those Pure Patriots Who Were Afflicted with 'Cotton wool on the Encephalon' and Who Saw The Elephant", was published in New Orleans in 1864, past A. E. Blackmar.
Lyrics [edit]
[1]
We all went downwardly to New Orleans,
For Bales, for Bales;
We all went downwards to New Orleans,
For Bales, says I;
We all went down to New Orleans,
To get a peep behind the scenes,
"And we'll all drink stone bullheaded,
Johnny fill up upwardly the bowl".[2]
We idea when we got in the "Ring",
For Bales, for Bales;
We thought when we got in the "Ring",
For Bales, says I;
Nosotros thought when we got in the "Ring",
Greenbacks would be a expressionless sure matter,
"And we'll all potable rock blind,
Johnny fill up the bowl".[three]
The "ring" went upward, with bagging and rope,
For Bales, for Bales;
Upon the "Black Hawk" with bagging and rope,
For Bales, says I;
Went up "Scarlet River" with bagging and rope,
Expecting to brand a pile of "soap",
"And we'll all drink rock bullheaded,
Johnny make full the bowl".[4]
Just Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
For Bales, for Bales;
But Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
For Bales, says I;
But Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
Burned up the cotton and whipped old Banks,
"And nosotros'll all drink stone blind,
Johnny make full up the bowl".[five]
Our "ring" came dorsum and cursed and swore,
For Bales, for Bales;
Our "ring" came back and cursed and swore,
For Bales, says I;
Our "band" came back and cursed and swore,
For we got no cotton at Grand Ecore,
"And we'll all beverage stone blind,
Johnny fill the bowl".[6]
Now let us all give praise and thanks,
For Bales, for Bales;
Now allow us all give praise and thank you,
For Bales, says I;
Now let usa all give praise and cheers,
For the victory gained by General Banks,
"And we'll all potable stone blind,
Johnny fill up the bowl".[xviii]
Notable recordings [edit]
- Morton Gould'due south classical arrangement "American Salute" of the song (1943).
- Harris, Roy (1934), When Johnny Comes Marching Home — An American Overture .
- The Andrews Sisters, a "Swing Era" sister deed sang an upbeat "swing" version in the 1940s.
- British pop vocaliser Adam Faith sang a version titled "Johnny Comes Marching Home", used over the opening and endmost title credits for the British offense thriller Never Let Go (1960). This version was bundled and conducted by John Barry. Another version was released as a unmarried, reaching No. v in the UK Singles Chart.[19]
- Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his anthology 101 Gang Songs (1961).
- Patti Labelle and the Bluebells sang a famous rendition alive at the Apollo in the 1960s.
- A French version (without vocals) "Johnny Revient d'la Guerre" was recorded by Bérurier Noir, on the anthology Macadam Massacre (1983).
- American singer Angel Snow's rendition of the song appears on the compilation album Divided & United: Songs of the Civil State of war.
- A rendition performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, conducted by Gerard Schwartz, on the album "Portraits of Freedom: Music of Aaron Copland and Roy Harris" (1993).
- The Dropkick Murphys recorded their own version of the song, titled "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ya", using onetime Irish lyrics to the song's beat.
- Jacob Miller used the melody for his song "Peace Treaty", which was written for the One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 22, 1978, to celebrate a peace treaty betwixt the opposing leading parties.
- Folk band Ye Banished Privateers recorded the melody with lyrics about undead sailors as 'When Ye Expressionless Come up Sailing Home' for their album Songs And Curses.
- Guns North' Roses too included the tune in course of whistling in the intro and outro of 'Civil War' in 1991.
- Galician Celtic folk music ensemble Luar na Lubre used the tune in the song "Os animais" on the 2007 Camiños da fin da terra album.
- The tune of the song was used for the song "Brave Sir Robin" in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
References [edit]
- ^ Lighter, pp. 16–17.
- ^ Lighter, p. sixteen.
- ^ [1] [ dead link ]
- ^ Peterson, Patti Jo (August thirty, 2007). "The House that O'Rourke Congenital". The Plattsmouth Periodical: v.
- ^ Peterson, Patti Jo (June 15, 2006). "The O'Rourke Firm". The Plattsmouth Journal: 11.
- ^ Lighter, pp. seventy–71.
- ^ Lighter, p. 17.
- ^ Lighter, pp. 18–19.
- ^ Lighter, p. 21.
- ^ a b Lighter, p. xix.
- ^ Lighter, pp. 21–28.
- ^ Lighter, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Erbsen, p. 68
- ^ Lighter, p. 15.
- ^ Jay Nordlinger, "American Sounds: A little music with your politics – music at political conventions", National Review, 2000-09-xi
- ^ Haynes, Stan M. (2015). President-Making in the Gilded Age: The Nominating Conventions of 1876–1900. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 43. ISBN9781476623054.
- ^ Lambert, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".
- ^ "For bales" (PDF). Lcweb2.loc.gov . Retrieved 12 October 2017.
- ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness Globe Records Express. pp. 192–3. ISBN1-904994-10-5.
Bibliography [edit]
- Erbsen, Wayne: Rousing Songs and Truthful Tales of the Civil War. Native Basis Books & Music, 2008. ISBN 1-883206-33-2
- Lambert, Louis (Patrick Gilmore). "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". Boston: Henry Tolman & Co. (1863)
- Lighter, Jonathan. "The Best Antiwar Song Ever Written," Occasional Papers in Folklore No. ane. CAMSCO Music and Loomis Firm Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-935243-89-2
External links [edit]
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" , John Terrill (Eastward. Berliner'southward Gramaphone (1893)—Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Habitation" (Overview Folio—Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Domicile" (Sheet Music), Oldroyd, Osbourne H. The Proficient One-time Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '67, —Projection Gutenberg.
- "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - A Civil War Song Marches On
- MIDI and description
- Library of Congress copy, For Bales
- The short film A NATION SINGS (1963) is available for free download at the Internet Archive.
When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again Original Lyrics
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