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Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic
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1. Song: Battle Hymn of the Republic
When the song was sung at a rally attended by President Lincoln, he cried out with tears in his eyes, "Sing it again!" (GodTube.com)
Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) wrote the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" in 1861 at the outbreak of the American Civil War, being asked to write new words for "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to the popular tune "Glory, Hallelujah".

The tune and words soon spread to troops, slaves, prisoners, etc. Music: Battle hymn of the republic
This is hymn #692 in the hymnal.

2. Words

3. Context
In 1861, Julia Ward Howe heard soldiers singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave" to the popular tune "Glory, Hallelujah".

She was asked by visiting minister Dr. Clarke if she could not write more suitable words for the tune.

The next morning, she woke up inspired to write the "Battle Hymn of the Republic".

4. Spreading the word
A Methodist minister/bishop C. C. McCable taught the song to the 122nd Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (to which he was attached) and it spread from there to other troops, slaves, prisoners, etc.
When the song was sung at a rally attended by President Lincoln, he cried out with tears in his eyes, "Sing it again!" (GodTube.com)

5. Music
The tune came about from American camp meetings of the late 1700's and early 1800's as what was called John Brown Song".

6. Camp meetings
Specialists in nineteenth-century American religious history describe camp meeting music as the creative product of participants who, when seized by the spirit of a particular sermon or prayer, would take lines from a preacher's text as a point of departure for a short, simple melody. The melody was either borrowed from a preexisting tune or made up on the spot. The line would be sung repeatedly, changing slightly each time, and shaped gradually into a stanza that could be learned easily by others and memorized quickly. (Wikipedia)

7. Verse 1
Mine eyes have seen the
    glory of the coming of the Lord;
he is trampling out the vintage
    where the grapes of wrath are stored;
he hath loosed the fateful
    lightning of his terrible swift sword;
His truth is marching on.

8. Refrain
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

9. Verse 2
I have seen him in the they have builded him an I can read his righteous his day is marching on.

10. Refrain
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

11. Verse 3
He has sounded forth the
    trumpet that shall never call retreat;
he is sifting out the
    hearts of all before his judgment seat.
O be swift, my soul, to
    answer him; be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

12. Refrain
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

13. Verse 4
In the beauty of the lilies with a glory in his as he died to make us while God is marching on.

14. Refrain
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.

15. End of page

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