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" When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah ! hurrah ! We'll give him a hearty welcome then, hurrah ! hurrah ! The girls will sing, the boys will shout, The ladies they will all turn out, And we' 11 all feel quite gay, When Johnny comes marching home !"
The military and volunteer bands used to play it, but we have not heard the old air for years now. One of the great war songs of the North was " John Brown's soul is marching on," and not the " Star-Spangled Banner." A truly beau-tiful song, popular with North and South during the war, was " Rock me to Sleep, Mother," written by an Irish-American, D. K. O'Donnel, and composed by Florence Percy. This, of course, is well-known in England also. The South produced two war-songs that evince gen-uine poetic feeling, and have been accorded un-stinted praise by the critics. They are " The Conquered Banner," by Father Ryan, and " All quiet along Potomac to-night," by Lamar Foun-taine. That most pathetic poem,—was it not written by a Miss (or Mrs.) Rose Carey?— " Somebody's Darling," was produced about this period, and touched many a parent's heart.
It is not always easy to fathom the reason of the popularity of any particular song.
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