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American Civil State of war-era popular vocal

Song

"When Johnny Comes Marching Dwelling"
Sheet music cover, 1863
Song
Published	1863
Songwriter(s)	Louis Lambert a.thousand.a. Patrick Gilmore
Audio sample
c. 1990 U.S. Armed forces Academy Band performance file aid

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Roud 6637), sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Once more", is a popular song from the American Ceremonious War that expressed people'due south longing for the render of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.

Origins [edit]

The lyrics to "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" were written by the Irish-American bandleader Patrick Gilmore during the American Civil War. Its first canvass 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, simply pop composers of the flow ofttimes employed pseudonyms to add a impact of romantic mystery to their compositions.^[2] Gilmore is said to accept written the song for his sis Annie equally she prayed for the safe return of her fiancé, Union Light Arms Captain John O'Rourke, from the Ceremonious War,^{[3] [4] [v]} although it is not clear if they were already engaged in 1863; the ii were not married until 1875.^[6]

Gilmore later acknowledged that the music was not original but was, as he put it in an 1883 commodity in the Musical Herald, "a musical waif which I happened to hear somebody humming in the early on days of the rebellion, and taking a fancy to it, wrote it down, dressed it upward, gave information technology a name, and rhymed it into usefulness for a special purpose suited to the times."^[7]

The melody was previously published around July one, 1863, as the music to the Civil State of war drinking song "Johnny Fill up the Bowl".^[eight] A color-illustrated, undated slip of Gilmore's lyrics, printed by his own Boston publisher, actually states that "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" should be sung to the tune of "Johnny Fill up Up the Bowl".^[9] The original canvas music for "Johnny Fill up Up the Bowl" states that the music was bundled (non equanimous) by J. Durnal.^[10] 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 connexion to the seventeenth-century ballad "The Three Ravens".^[11]

"When Johnny Comes Marching Abode" is also sung to the same tune as "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye" and is frequently thought to have been a rewriting of that song. However, "Johnny I Inappreciably Knew Ye" was not published until 1867, and it originally had a unlike melody.^[12]

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was immensely popular and was sung past both sides of the American Civil War.^[thirteen] Information technology became a hit in England as well.^[14]

Culling versions [edit]

Quite a few variations on the song, equally well equally songs set to the same tune simply with different lyrics, accept appeared since "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" was popularized. The declared larcenous tendencies of some Wedlock soldiers in New Orleans were parodied in the lyrics "For Bales", to the same melody. A British version appeared in 1914, with the like title, "When Tommy Comes Marching Home". The 1880 U.S. presidential election campaign featured a entrada song called "If the Johnnies Get into Power,"^[xv] which supported the Republicans James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur confronting the "Johnnies" (Democrats Winfield S. Hancock and William H. English).^[sixteen]

Lyrics [edit]

Illustration of a Zouave company on Civil War era broadside of "When Johnny Comes Marching Home".

The original lyrics as written past Gilmore, are:^[17]

When Johnny comes marching dwelling house over again
Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men volition cheer and the boys volition shout
The ladies they will all turn out
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching dwelling house.

The old church building bong will peal with joy
Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome abode our darling boy,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The village lads and lassies say
With roses they volition strew the mode,
And nosotros'll all experience gay
When Johnny comes marching abode.

Become set for the Jubilee,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
Nosotros'll give the hero three times three,
Hurrah! Hurrah!
The laurel wreath is ready now
To place upon his loyal forehead
And nosotros'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.

Let honey and friendship on that day,
Hurrah, hurrah!
Their choicest pleasures and then display,
Hurrah, hurrah!
And let each one perform some office,
To fill with joy the warrior'due south eye,
And we'll all feel gay
When Johnny comes marching home.

Some later recordings end each verse with "And nosotros'll all feel glad when Johnny comes marching dwelling house."

"Johnny Fill up the Bowl" [edit]

"Johnny Fill Upwards the Bowl", which provided the melody for "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", was a topical drinking song that commented on events in the American Civil War. It was frequently refitted with new words by soldiers and other publishers.^[10]

A satirical variant of "Johnny Fill up Upwards the Basin", entitled "For Bales" or, more fully, "For Bales! An O'er True Tale. Defended to Those Pure Patriots Who Were Afflicted with 'Cotton wool on the Brain' and Who Saw The Elephant", was published in New Orleans in 1864, by A. E. Blackmar.

Lyrics [edit]

[ane]
Nosotros all went down to New Orleans,
For Bales, for Bales;
We all went down to New Orleans,
For Bales, says I;
Nosotros all went downwardly to New Orleans,
To get a peep backside the scenes,
"And we'll all drink stone blind,
Johnny make full up the basin".

[two]
We idea when we got in the "Ring",
For Bales, for Bales;
We thought when nosotros got in the "Ring",
For Bales, says I;
Nosotros idea when we got in the "Band",
Cash would be a dead sure thing,
"And nosotros'll all beverage stone blind,
Johnny fill up the bowl".

[3]
The "ring" went upwards, with bagging and rope,
For Bales, for Bales;
Upon the "Black Hawk" with bagging and rope,
For Bales, says I;
Went upward "Red River" with bagging and rope,
Expecting to make a pile of "soap",
"And nosotros'll all drink stone bullheaded,
Johnny fill the bowl".

[4]
But Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
For Bales, for Bales;
But Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
For Bales, says I;
Simply Taylor and Smith, with ragged ranks,
Burned upwards the cotton wool and whipped onetime Banks,
"And we'll all drink stone bullheaded,
Johnny fill up the bowl".

[5]
Our "band" came back and cursed and swore,
For Bales, for Bales;
Our "ring" came back and cursed and swore,
For Bales, says I;
Our "ring" came back and cursed and swore,
For we got no cotton at Thousand Ecore,
"And nosotros'll all drink stone blind,
Johnny fill upwards the bowl".

[half dozen]
Now let us all requite praise and thank you,
For Bales, for Bales;
Now permit united states all give praise and thanks,
For Bales, says I;
Now let us all give praise and thanks,
For the victory gained past General Banks,
"And we'll all potable stone blind,
Johnny make full up the bowl".^[18]

Notable recordings [edit]

• Morton Gould'south classical organisation "American Salute" of the song (1943).
• Harris, Roy (1934), When Johnny Comes Marching Dwelling house — An American Overture .
• The Andrews Sisters, a "Swing Era" sister act sang an upbeat "swing" version in the 1940s.
• British pop singer Adam Faith sang a version titled "Johnny Comes Marching Domicile", used over the opening and closing championship credits for the British offense thriller Never Let Go (1960). This version was arranged and conducted by John Barry. Another version was released every bit a unmarried, reaching No. five in the UK Singles Chart.^[19]
• Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his album 101 Gang Songs (1961).
• Patti Labelle and the Bluebells sang a famous rendition live at the Apollo in the 1960s.
• A French version (without vocals) "Johnny Revient d'la Guerre" was recorded by Bérurier Noir, on the album Macadam Massacre (1983).
• American singer Angel Snowfall's rendition of the vocal appears on the compilation album Divided & United: Songs of the Ceremonious War.
• A rendition performed by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, conducted by Gerard Schwartz, on the album "Portraits of Liberty: Music of Aaron Copland and Roy Harris" (1993).
• The Dropkick Murphys recorded their own version of the song, titled "Johnny I Inappreciably Knew Ya", using sometime Irish gaelic lyrics to the song's beat out.
• Jacob Miller used the melody for his vocal "Peace Treaty", which was written for the 1 Dear Peace Concert in Kingston, Jamaica, on April 22, 1978, to celebrate a peace treaty between the opposing leading parties.
• Folk band Ye Banished Privateers recorded the tune with lyrics about undead sailors equally 'When Ye Dead Come Sailing Home' for their anthology Songs And Curses.
• Guns Due north' Roses also 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 melody of the song was used for the song "Brave Sir Robin" in the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

References [edit]

1. ^ Lighter, pp. sixteen–17.
2. ^ Lighter, p. 16.
3. ^ [1] ^{[ dead link ]}
4. ^ Peterson, Patti Jo (Baronial 30, 2007). "The House that O'Rourke Built". The Plattsmouth Journal: 5.
5. ^ Peterson, Patti Jo (June 15, 2006). "The O'Rourke Firm". The Plattsmouth Journal: eleven.
6. ^ Lighter, pp. 70–71.
7. ^ Lighter, p. 17.
8. ^ Lighter, pp. xviii–19.
9. ^ Lighter, p. 21.
10. ^ ^{a b} Lighter, p. 19.
11. ^ Lighter, pp. 21–28.
12. ^ Lighter, pp. 28–29.
13. ^ Erbsen, p. 68
14. ^ Lighter, p. 15.
15. ^ Jay Nordlinger, "American Sounds: A footling music with your politics – music at political conventions", National Review, 2000-09-11
16. ^ Haynes, Stan Yard. (2015). President-Making in the Gilt Age: The Nominating Conventions of 1876–1900. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland. p. 43. ISBN9781476623054.
17. ^ Lambert, "When Johnny Comes Marching Abode".
18. ^ "For bales" (PDF). Lcweb2.loc.gov . Retrieved 12 October 2017.
19. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. pp. 192–3. ISBN1-904994-10-5.

Bibliography [edit]

• Erbsen, Wayne: Rousing Songs and True 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 All-time Antiwar Song Ever Written," Occasional Papers in Folklore No. 1. CAMSCO Music and Loomis House Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-935243-89-two

External links [edit]

• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" , John Terrill (East. Berliner'south Gramaphone (1893)—Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Dwelling house" (Overview Folio—Library of Congress Performing Arts Encyclopedia.
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Abode" (Sail Music), Oldroyd, Osbourne H. The Good Old Songs We Used to Sing, '61 to '67, —Project Gutenberg.
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" - A Civil War Vocal Marches On
• MIDI and clarification
• Library of Congress copy, For Bales
• The short film A NATION SINGS (1963) is available for free download at the Net Archive.

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