The John Brown Song or Glory Hallelujah


 * Verse
 * Oh, John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave,
 * While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;
 * But tho' he lost his life in struggling for the slave,
 * His soul is marching on.


 * Chorus
 * Oh glory hallelujah
 * Glory glory hallelujah
 * Oh glory hallelujah
 * His soul is marching on.


 * Verse
 * John Brown was a hero undaunted, true and brave;
 * Kansas knew his valor when he fought her rights to save;
 * And now tho' the grass grows green above his grave,
 * His soul is marching on.


 * Verse
 * He captured Harpers Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
 * And he frighten'd "Old Viginny" 'till she trembled thro' and thro';
 * They hung him for a traitor, themselves a traitor crew,
 * But his soul is marching on.


 * Verse
 * John Brown was John the Baptist for the Christ we are to see
 * Christ who of the bondman shall the Liberator be;
 * And soon throughout the sunny south, the slaves shall all be free,
 * For his soul is marching on.


 * Verse
 * The conflict that he heralded, he looks from heav'n to view;
 * On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue,
 * And heaven shall ring with anthems o'er the deeds they mean to do,
 * For his soul is marching on.


 * Verse
 * O soldiers of freedom, then strike while strike you may
 * The death blow of oppression in a better time and way;
 * For the dawn of old John Brown has brighten'd into day,
 * And his soul is marching on.