Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2(pesnta.1.2) 9/5/84; site scc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!scc!tim From: tim@scc.UUCP (Tim Bessie) Newsgroups: net.music.folk Subject: Re: `When Johnny Comes Marching Home' Message-ID: <307@scc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 13:30:58 EST Article-I.D.: scc.307 Posted: Thu Jan 10 13:30:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:08:28 EST References: <227@daemon.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Santa Cruz Computer, Inc, Aptos, Calif. Lines: 14 > 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