When Johnny comes marching home again,
Hurrah, hurrah,
We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
Hurrah, hurrah;
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies, they will all turn out,
And we'll all feel gay,
When Johnny comes marching home.
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Cf. the lyrics in Jean Thomas, Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939), p. 54 | In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that was when the war begun,
In eighteen hundred and sixty-two, both sides were falling to,
In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, Abe Lincoln set the darkies free,
In eighteen hundred and sixty-four, Abe called for five hundred thousand more,
In eighteen hundred and sixty-five, they talked rebellion—strife;
And we'll all drink stone wine, when Johnny comes marching home.