The John Brown Song or Glory Hallelujah
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- 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.

This work was published before January 1, 1928, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.