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John Brown's Body: The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

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I would perform the song “John Brown’s Body”, which is “The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Now there are many different versions of this song but I would choose the version that came about after the abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859. With a fiercer set of lyrics; the song now declared that "John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on!" By the time the Civil War began in 1861, the John Brown version of the song had spread throughout the Union army and they sang it while the marched during the Civil War.
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