John Brown's Body

Negro Spiritual - Traditional
Juarês de Mira - Singer
Lazaro Wenger - Pianist
Guaira Theather Curitiba - Brazil - 2003

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,
John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah
His soul goes marching on.

The stars above in Heaven now are looking kindly down,
The stars above in Heaven now are looking kindly down,
His soul goes marching on

Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
Glory, glory, hallelujah
His soul goes marching on.

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Music

Tags:

• Negro
• Spirituals
• blues
• classical
• jazz
• religious
• John
• Brown's
• Body

[3SirCrimson3]

John Brown was the greatest American hero, and fuck anyone who still thinks of him as "controversial". He died so that men may be free.

[mayflash67]

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave,

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah,

Glory, glory, hallelujah

His soul goes marching on.

[Asteriks]

Too bad Juarês gets the end of my favorite stanza (0:43-1:00) wrong:

The stars above in heaven they are looking kindly down

The stars above in heaven they are looking kindly down

The stars above in heaven they are looking kindly down

Upon the grave of old John Brown

[ewancummins]

 He was a terrorist, and I'm glad they hanged him.

[MrIDMW]

stop the bus i need a wee wee

stop the bus i need a wee wee

stop the bus i need a wee wee

and the driver needs one to

[fvecc]

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

[fvecc]

Calling John Brown a terrorist from our perspective, nearly 150 years after the raid, is narrow minded. He was a hero to many during that time frame. This song was used as a marching hymn by the Northern soldiers who fought and died to ensure that the Union, dedicated to the proposition that ALL men were created equal, would endure. Brown wasn't the terrorist. Rather it was those supporting the foul institution of slavery that were terrorizing the spirit of the American republic.

"They hung hi

[xk5]

@miteyboosh23 Sorry, I've got no sympathy for slave owners or their families, they got what was coming to them.

[miteyboosh23]

@Qazaq lmao even if he didnt kill them in front of their families hes still a terrible human. He massacred even minor slaveholding families all across souther kansas. If you think slavery is wrong, murder is much worse, bigot.

[Qazaq]

@liberatordude1988 if you read the history, John Brown from the Massachusetts regiment was made fun of because of John Brown the abolitionist. so NO, it is not wrong John Brown

[Qazaq]

@miteyboosh23 he didn't kill them in front of their families. google "pottawatomie killings." learn your history, bigot.

[miteyboosh23]

John brown was a psychopath.Killing fathers in front of their families? come on now...