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From: tim@scc.UUCP (Tim Bessie)
Newsgroups: net.music.folk
Subject: Re: `When Johnny Comes Marching Home'
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Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:30:58 EST
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> Can anyone give me any information about the famous folk song that goes
> `When Johnny comes marching home again ...'?  I am curious as to who
> (if known) wrote the song, when and where it was published (I think it
> is an Irish folk song ...  my favorite!), and if the words and music
> are printed in any books? Thanks very much.
> 
> David

     The original, Irish root of this song is called "Johnny, I hardly
knew ye."  It quite different from "When Johnny comes marching home" in
that it concerns the horrors of war, as opposed to the "glory and triumph"
of war.  You can find it in any good anthology of Irish songs.

				-Tim Bessie