I remember being in some amysh town near Washington and it was where he died...We walked there and some guy came to us like a physco and sang this to us xD
As far as people here saying John Brown was "a sick man", that he shouldn't be "glorified", that "all was not well in Brown's head" because of The Pottawatomie Massacre - that's just madness. At Pottawatomie James Doyle's 16 year old son was spared execution because he never participated in enslaving. When they got to James Harris's home they did not kill Wightman and Glanville because they weren't slavers. He played Pottawatomie by the book. John Brown was a hero and his soul goes marching on.
@twosidesandthetruth I agree with this. And mind you, I understand your "cold steel" comment above. I'm just not sure it's a thing we ought to act upon, even though it's true some people deserve it. The main point, though, in my judgment, with regard to the incident at Pottawatomie, and specifically, those who complain about it, is one of people living today who are hiding racial animus behind an attack on the captain. But, in the end, his soul goes marching on.
@iLoVe136: No, man, it's you who doesn't know what you're talking about. The slaining of the Doyles and Wilkinson and Sherman was a pre-emptive strike as well as a vengeance killing. The Doyles were Border Ruffians who had already marked John Brown and his family to be killed and the Doyles themselves were slave catchers. Even one of the Doyle's wives acknowledged why they were hacked to death. My only issue with the killings was that they were killed with broadswords instead of pistols.
The incident some are referring to is called the Pottawatomie massacre. Essentially, Brown and his people murdered five people involved with slavery-- the Doyle family members, for example, were former slave catchers. It must be noted that historians disagree on whether Brown had anything to do with it. Definitive evidence would be helpful to his biographers for many reasons, but it would not materially change his role in history apart from its effect on the effort to recall him as a hero.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views. In 1837, in response to the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy, Brown publicly vowed: “Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”
@misterelsh, while I understand where you're coming from, I think you're putting your faith behind someone who hardly deserves it. John Brown was a sick man, even before the uprising against his own government and attempted coup. He slaughtered an entire family for the one man's wrong doing. He was not a noble man, despite his good intension, all was not well in Brown's head. I think you'd be better off supporting other peoples contributions to the ending slavery effort...
They could make a good slasher type film based on the things they say he did with an axe. I like the effects with the lighting, good job singing and playing.
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John Brown was a terrible man. He was a radical who killed people and had no right to. He was a major contributor to the growing tensions of the U.S. at the time. I don't know why in the world why people glorify this man.
@nibbler66 you have no idea what u are talking about
i do like this song but get your facts straight
for instance
he did not do all by himself! his sons and other abolitionist helped him
he killed 5 people before Harpers Ferry - he dragged them out of their beds in the middle of the night and killed them because even though they did not own any slaves they "supported slavery"-
and HALF the states had not succeeded from the union!
Okay let me clarify what i want to say. In my mind one of the worst things(if not 'the' worst) that can happen to human being, is there freedom stripped away from them in the enslavement of that person.- A freedom fighter?- Yes you can say that, and i agree with you, but the reason for my condemnation of him is what he did in "Bleeding Kansas". There were radicals on both sides of the argument(Free/Slave), and I condemn both of them for what they did. But john brown DID kill innocent people.
And that is fact. All i am saying is, you shouldn't glorify the man to this extent. A man who killed innocent civilians in the name of freedom.
B.T.W. aside from what he did in kansas, there where 6 civilians killed and 9 wounded at harpers ferry, not one.
He had the right idea, but took the wrong actions. Why could he not be like other successful and peaceful abolitionist. Instead of resorting to his misguided radicalism.
What a despicable attitude. Of course both sides participate in barbaric violence and unfortunately kill innocents. However, anyone with a sense of justice would agree that a couple dead oppressors is a small price to pay when an entire group of people are being denied the rights they deserve as human beings.
It's a great song. John Brown was a pretty cool fella, a little misguided maybe, but he had the right idea. Never heard anything but the first verse before.
I was recently listening to my old Alan Sherman LP,"My Son,The Folk Singer". It was then that I had decided to purchase the lovingly-asssembled Alan Sherman boxed set cd collection put out by Rhino-Warner Brothers Records. I can't wait for it to arrive in the post!
Greetings to you in Argentina from Canada. I was in your beautiful country in November 2006. My cousin (born and raised in BA) lives in Buenos Aires. I also visted Tilcara. (north of Jujuy) Beautiful... love the charango.
I remember listening to a folk song duo (I think husband and wife) from Canada, when I was a kid growing up in Minnesota. I am so sorry I forgot the name... I loved that LP so much I wasted it!
That would have been Ian & Sylvia. They divorced a long time ago and both persued solo careers. Yes... they were great. I am sure you could look them up on youtube...|
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I looked them up and I think they weren´t the ones. Maybe the ones I remember were brother and sister. I think she was blond. I also remember a group from Montreal singing French classics such as Les feuilles morts and Il ne faut pas briser un reve... They were called something like Les Tres Barres... Les Quatre Bars? (My past has this stubborn way of slipping away from me...)
It was Cysco Houston (during The Almanac days) who was so moved by these nearly forgotten American Civil War songs,who had made it a point to revive them by having folks sing them across the land from the North to the South.
I am delighted that you have chosen to do your part in perpetuating them here upon You Tube. Cysco,Woody,Lee and all of the others that have strived to get these songs on the lips of folks surely join you in spirit.
That you should bring up Cisco is so strange... I haven't thought of him for a long time and I don't associate him with this song. I have been away from Montreal for a few days and today I had to go back to town to attend to some things. While home I decided to upload John Browns Body. Before driving back to the country I went to my CD collection to get something different for the drive... I picked Cisco Houston "the folkway years 1944-61." Now, back in the country I get your comment... spooky!!
Those Folways Recordings are now (thankfully) held @ The Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C. While I myself have never worked in their archives,I know for a fact,that the proceeds form the sale of each and every Folkways recording goes back to The Smithsonian's program for the preservation of the American Recording Heritage...a worthy cause,I might add.
John Browns Tractor had a puncture in its tyre so he mended it with chewing gum
smokingdynamite 6 months ago
John Brown Hero
captain2ahab 7 months ago
I remember being in some amysh town near Washington and it was where he died...We walked there and some guy came to us like a physco and sang this to us xD
PotatoBro 8 months ago
JOhn Brown, terrorist and race-traitor.
IversFTW 8 months ago
Dyslexics are teople poo
TheMaxACDCJohnLennon 9 months ago
He was a good man who did not deserve to die and i love this tribute song to him
yosupman101 9 months ago 2
John Brown was a hero.
Salvus967 9 months ago 3
john brown was a great person according to my opinion ...
Maxionist 11 months ago 2
john brown was a great person according to my opinion ...
Maxionist 11 months ago
very cool
nimox57 1 year ago
2 people cant play this song
SuperElmo619 1 year ago
hahahaahaha i love this song!!!!!!! my 8th grade teacher showed my class this its awesome!!!!!!
AllyReneeCecila 1 year ago
@AllyReneeCecila Mine too. :D
JoanJoan1997 1 year ago
As far as people here saying John Brown was "a sick man", that he shouldn't be "glorified", that "all was not well in Brown's head" because of The Pottawatomie Massacre - that's just madness. At Pottawatomie James Doyle's 16 year old son was spared execution because he never participated in enslaving. When they got to James Harris's home they did not kill Wightman and Glanville because they weren't slavers. He played Pottawatomie by the book. John Brown was a hero and his soul goes marching on.
twosidesandthetruth 1 year ago 13
@twosidesandthetruth I agree with this. And mind you, I understand your "cold steel" comment above. I'm just not sure it's a thing we ought to act upon, even though it's true some people deserve it. The main point, though, in my judgment, with regard to the incident at Pottawatomie, and specifically, those who complain about it, is one of people living today who are hiding racial animus behind an attack on the captain. But, in the end, his soul goes marching on.
Dmerrin10000 1 year ago
@iLoVe136: No, man, it's you who doesn't know what you're talking about. The slaining of the Doyles and Wilkinson and Sherman was a pre-emptive strike as well as a vengeance killing. The Doyles were Border Ruffians who had already marked John Brown and his family to be killed and the Doyles themselves were slave catchers. Even one of the Doyle's wives acknowledged why they were hacked to death. My only issue with the killings was that they were killed with broadswords instead of pistols.
twosidesandthetruth 1 year ago
@twosidesandthetruth Border Ruffians and people who would enslave others dont deserve bullets, they deserve cold steel
Lambchop08 1 year ago
The incident some are referring to is called the Pottawatomie massacre. Essentially, Brown and his people murdered five people involved with slavery-- the Doyle family members, for example, were former slave catchers. It must be noted that historians disagree on whether Brown had anything to do with it. Definitive evidence would be helpful to his biographers for many reasons, but it would not materially change his role in history apart from its effect on the effort to recall him as a hero.
Dmerrin10000 1 year ago
Elijah Parish Lovejoy (November 9, 1802 – November 7, 1837) was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views. In 1837, in response to the murder of Elijah P. Lovejoy, Brown publicly vowed: “Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!”
howlingsandy 1 year ago
@misterelsh, while I understand where you're coming from, I think you're putting your faith behind someone who hardly deserves it. John Brown was a sick man, even before the uprising against his own government and attempted coup. He slaughtered an entire family for the one man's wrong doing. He was not a noble man, despite his good intension, all was not well in Brown's head. I think you'd be better off supporting other peoples contributions to the ending slavery effort...
sausuge2 1 year ago
I like the version by William Weston Patton, but I can't find the version sung anywhere:
He captured Harpers 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.
Mahmhn 2 years ago
I like the video effect. Its like a ghost from the distant past talking to us.
syscom3 2 years ago
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White man marches on
Pi4a34 2 years ago
Thank you very much Lew Dite. Great performance. And I love the eerie look of all this. 5 Stars.
Arclane2207 2 years ago 4
They could make a good slasher type film based on the things they say he did with an axe. I like the effects with the lighting, good job singing and playing.
tori8984 2 years ago
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John Brown was a terrible man. He was a radical who killed people and had no right to. He was a major contributor to the growing tensions of the U.S. at the time. I don't know why in the world why people glorify this man.
ScotlandForever0 2 years ago
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nibbler66 2 years ago
@nibbler66 you have no idea what u are talking about
i do like this song but get your facts straight
for instance
he did not do all by himself! his sons and other abolitionist helped him
he killed 5 people before Harpers Ferry - he dragged them out of their beds in the middle of the night and killed them because even though they did not own any slaves they "supported slavery"-
and HALF the states had not succeeded from the union!
iLoVe136 1 year ago
And what do you think the Revolutionary War was?
John Brown is a hero to us all. A true freedom fighter.
deadonred 2 years ago
because he was anti-slavery and fought to free good men from evil. that's why they glorify him, and rightly so, you piece of shit.
might look into the history of Scotland before posting, asshole- you make a burnie spin right round in his hallowed earth.
what did you ever fight for, chickenshit? Slavery?
willfullyobscure 2 years ago
Okay let me clarify what i want to say. In my mind one of the worst things(if not 'the' worst) that can happen to human being, is there freedom stripped away from them in the enslavement of that person.- A freedom fighter?- Yes you can say that, and i agree with you, but the reason for my condemnation of him is what he did in "Bleeding Kansas". There were radicals on both sides of the argument(Free/Slave), and I condemn both of them for what they did. But john brown DID kill innocent people.
ScotlandForever0 2 years ago
And that is fact. All i am saying is, you shouldn't glorify the man to this extent. A man who killed innocent civilians in the name of freedom.
B.T.W. aside from what he did in kansas, there where 6 civilians killed and 9 wounded at harpers ferry, not one.
He had the right idea, but took the wrong actions. Why could he not be like other successful and peaceful abolitionist. Instead of resorting to his misguided radicalism.
ScotlandForever0 2 years ago
What a despicable attitude. Of course both sides participate in barbaric violence and unfortunately kill innocents. However, anyone with a sense of justice would agree that a couple dead oppressors is a small price to pay when an entire group of people are being denied the rights they deserve as human beings.
misterelsh 1 year ago
@ScotlandForever0 two sides to every story
iLoVe136 1 year ago
Hey anyone know what the chords are? Im finding it difficult to find an accurate interpretation. I will be much obliged.
leofransisco 3 years ago
(G) John Brown's body lies a mouldin' in the grave
(C) John Brown's body lies a (G) mouldin' in the grave
John Brown's body lies a (B7) mouldin' in the (Em) grave
And his (C) soul goes (D) marching (G) on.
lewdite 3 years ago
It's a great song. John Brown was a pretty cool fella, a little misguided maybe, but he had the right idea. Never heard anything but the first verse before.
SirCoughsalot 3 years ago
that was great, more people should know the whole story of our battle hymn. thanks
musicfreak1234567 3 years ago
nice one,haven't heard those lyrics in awhile.John Brown was one unique dude!
hoosierhiver 3 years ago
A great old song, but I can't help thinking of Alan Sherman's "Ballad of Harry Lewis!"
raymondcrooke 3 years ago
Hello
Raymond...
I was recently listening to my old Alan Sherman LP,"My Son,The Folk Singer". It was then that I had decided to purchase the lovingly-asssembled Alan Sherman boxed set cd collection put out by Rhino-Warner Brothers Records. I can't wait for it to arrive in the post!
Peace,
Stewball
oldstewball 3 years ago
I´ve been seeing all your posts. So cool!
ttvaz 3 years ago
Greetings to you in Argentina from Canada. I was in your beautiful country in November 2006. My cousin (born and raised in BA) lives in Buenos Aires. I also visted Tilcara. (north of Jujuy) Beautiful... love the charango.
lewdite 3 years ago
I remember listening to a folk song duo (I think husband and wife) from Canada, when I was a kid growing up in Minnesota. I am so sorry I forgot the name... I loved that LP so much I wasted it!
ttvaz 3 years ago
That would have been Ian & Sylvia. They divorced a long time ago and both persued solo careers. Yes... they were great. I am sure you could look them up on youtube...|
lewdite 3 years ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I looked them up and I think they weren´t the ones. Maybe the ones I remember were brother and sister. I think she was blond. I also remember a group from Montreal singing French classics such as Les feuilles morts and Il ne faut pas briser un reve... They were called something like Les Tres Barres... Les Quatre Bars? (My past has this stubborn way of slipping away from me...)
ttvaz 3 years ago
New to me Thanks for sharing
ghostgal30e 3 years ago
Great song Lew!
RLewisH 3 years ago
Appropriate effects
Well done again!!
5*'s
UncleVRoy 3 years ago
good song!
christopherinsc1981 3 years ago
Hello
Lew
It was Cysco Houston (during The Almanac days) who was so moved by these nearly forgotten American Civil War songs,who had made it a point to revive them by having folks sing them across the land from the North to the South.
I am delighted that you have chosen to do your part in perpetuating them here upon You Tube. Cysco,Woody,Lee and all of the others that have strived to get these songs on the lips of folks surely join you in spirit.
Pax
Stewball
oldstewball 3 years ago
Please pardon my error...that name should be spelled properly as Cisco Houston.:)
oldstewball 3 years ago
That you should bring up Cisco is so strange... I haven't thought of him for a long time and I don't associate him with this song. I have been away from Montreal for a few days and today I had to go back to town to attend to some things. While home I decided to upload John Browns Body. Before driving back to the country I went to my CD collection to get something different for the drive... I picked Cisco Houston "the folkway years 1944-61." Now, back in the country I get your comment... spooky!!
lewdite 3 years ago
Hello
Lew...
Those Folways Recordings are now (thankfully) held @ The Smithsonian Institution in Washington,D.C. While I myself have never worked in their archives,I know for a fact,that the proceeds form the sale of each and every Folkways recording goes back to The Smithsonian's program for the preservation of the American Recording Heritage...a worthy cause,I might add.
Poeace,
Max
oldstewball 3 years ago
Hello
Lew...
Well,as I've stated at the conclusion of my initial comment,Cisco joins you in spirit....LOL
Peace,
Max
oldstewball 3 years ago
I guess this is the original...
Or maybe an old tune with widely varying words
mooseman13579 3 years ago
Glory, Hallelujah!
kaburto1966 3 years ago
A foot tapper for sure Thanks for sharing.
ghostgal30e 3 years ago
i like this very much!
worschd21 3 years ago