Glory, hally, hallelujah!!
Publisher: Published and sold by Mrs. E. R. Sexten
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Gloucester, Mass
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs and music; Texts; Songs; Popular music; Ballads; History
Other titles: John Brown song.
Notes: Usually subtitled, The John Brown song.

First line: John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave.

Without music.

Portrait of Brown at head; floral decorative border (20 x 11.5 cm.)

Text of song in six four-line stanzas, each with two-line chorus.

" ... 'John Brown's body' was not composed originally about the fiery abolitionist at all. The namesake for the song ... was Sergeant John Brown of Boston, a Scotsman ... "--Silber, Irwin, Songs of the Civil War (New York, 1960), p. 11.