John Brown's original marching song
Subtitle: Tune.--Brothers, will you meet me
Publisher: Johnson, song publisher, stationer & printer, No. 7 N. Tenth St., 3 doors above Market, Phila.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Songs and music; History
Other titles: John Brown's body lies-a-mouldering in the grave
Work titles: Battle hymn of the republic (Song)
Notes: Song in six stanzas with chorus.

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

J.H. Johnson was located at 7 North Tenth Street in Philadelphia from 1858 to 1876.

Text within ornamental border (Auner-Johnson border. Cf. Wolf, E. Amer. song sheets, border I).

Wolf, E. American song sheets 1127d