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Encyclopedia > Battle Hymn of the Republic

The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a patriotic anthem written by Julia Ward Howe for the United States during the American Civil War as a replacement for the words to the marching song John Brown's Body. It was first published in The Atlantic Monthly in February, 1862.


The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated (1901), was Mark Twain's mocking parody of the below lyrics, inspired by then-recent events of the Spanish and Philippine Wars.


In 1960, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir won the Grammy Award for Best Performance by a Vocal Group or Chorus at the that year's awards ceremony with a recording that replaced the line "let us die to make men free" with the more optimistic "let us live to make men free", a variation that has since caught on to some extent.


It is often regarded as the northern counterpart to "Dixie".


Lyrics

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
Chorus
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."
Chorus
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Chorus
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, (sometimes "let us live to make men free")
While God is marching on.
Chorus
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honour to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Chorus

External link

  • The Battle Hymn of the Republic (http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1862feb/batthym.htm), The Atlantic Monthly, February, 1862. (available to subscribers only)


Patriotic Music of the United States
"America the Beautiful" | "Ballad of the Green Berets" | "Battle Cry of Freedom" | "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" | "Columbia, Gem of the Ocean" | "For The Dear Old Flag, I Die" | "God Bless America" | "God Bless the USA" | "Hail to the Chief" | "The Liberty Bell" |"My Country, Tis of Thee" | "The Stars and Stripes Forever" | "The Star-Spangled Banner" | "There's a Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere" | "This is My Country" | "This Land is Your Land" | "Yankee Doodle" | "You're a Grand Old Flag" | "When Johnny Comes Marching Home"



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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: The Battle Hymn of the Republic (4671 words)
"The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated" (1901) was Mark Twain's mocking parody of the lyrics, from the "point of view" of an American industrialist inspired by then-recent events of the Spanish and Philippine Wars.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Updated was written in 1901 by Mark Twain, as a parody of American imperialism, in the wake of the Philippine-American War.
The Battle Hymn of the Republic Updated (1901) was Mark Twain 's mocking parody of the below lyrics by then-recent events of the Spanish and Philippine Wars.
§5. Civil War Songs; "Dixie; The Battle Hymn of the Republic". XXVI. Patriotic Songs and Hymns. Vol. 18. Later ... (602 words)
Fanny J. Crosby’ss attempt to regain the tune for the North with her “On ye patriots to the battle” was wholly unsuccessful; the other Southern variants died away; Pike’ss version is now a literary memory; but Emmett’ss original words and music still bring people to their feet as no other song in America does.
The hymn had become a war ballad of widest popularity; but the ballad was to be rehabilitated as a hymn again.
Her attempt was christened by James T. Fields and appeared in the Atlantic, February, 1862, as The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
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