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Battle Hymn of the Republic
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On May 12, 1861, soon after the Civil War had begun, the strains of "John Brown's Body" were heard for the first time at Ft. Warren, near Boston, Massachusetts. Adapted by C.S. Hall from a three-year-old Methodist hymn, "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us," the words to the new version referred not to the Harper's Ferry raider but to a Sgt. John Brown, then stationed at the fort. The song became so popular among Northern soldiers that opposition developed to so common a lyric being affixed to so exalted a melody. In 1862, Julia Ward Howe was persuaded to write the inspirational words we know as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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 loos'd the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory Hallelujah!
Glory, glory Hallelujah!
Glory, glory Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps;
They have builded Him an alter in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps;
His day is marching on.
(repeat Chorus)
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