约翰·布朗之躯

1861年的歌曲印刷本

《约翰·布朗之躯》（原名为“约翰·布朗之歌”）是美国南北战争时期的一首著名进行曲。它是为了纪念美国廢奴主义运动家约翰·布朗。

部分人士認為，歌曲中的用詞不雅。后世不断有人创造與貢獻新的歌词，使其更具有文学色彩。

歌词

John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave; (3X)

His soul's marching on!

(Chorus)

Glory, halle—hallelujah! Glory, halle—hallelujah!

Glory, halle—hallelujah! his soul's marching on!

He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord! (3X)

His soul's marching on!

(Chorus)

John Brown's knapsack is strapped upon his back! (3X)

His soul's marching on!

(Chorus)

His pet lambs will meet him on the way; (3X)

They go marching on!

(Chorus)

They will hang Jeff Davis to a sour apple tree! (3X)

As they march along!

(Chorus)

Now, three rousing cheers for the Union; (3X)

As we are marching on!

国会图书馆另一版本：

William Weston Patton 所作：

Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave,

While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save;

But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave,

His soul is marching on.

John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave,

And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save;

Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave,

His soul is marching on.

He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,

And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru;

They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew,

But his soul is marching on.

John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see,

Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,

And soon thruout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,

For his soul is marching on.

The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view,

On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue.

And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do,

For his soul is marching on.

Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may,

The death blow of oppression in a better time and way,

For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day,

And his soul is marching on.

延伸阅读

• Scholes, Percy A. (1955). "John Brown's Body", The Oxford Companion of Music. Ninth edition. London: Oxford University Press.
• Stutler, Boyd B. (1960). Glory, Glory, Hallelujah! The Story of "John Brown's Body" and "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Cincinnati: The C. J. Krehbiel Co.
• Vowell, Sarah. (2005). "John Brown's Body," in The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the American Ballad. Ed. by Sean Wilentz and Greil Marcus. New York: W. W. Norton.

参考

• Randall, Annie J. A Censorship of Forgetting: Origins and Origin Myths of 'Battle Hymn of the Republic'. Music, Power, and Politics. New York: Routledge. 2005: 5. ISBN 0415943647. OCLC 54079486. 

外部链接

• Example version of "John Brown's Body" (MIDI)
• More John Brown Song information （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆）
• Sheet music （页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆） for "John Brown's Song", from Project Gutenberg