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"And Can It Be That I Should Gain?" is a Christian hymn written by Charles Wesley in 1738 to celebrate his conversion, which he regarded as having taken place on 21 May of that year. [1] The hymn celebrates personal salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus , and is one of the most popular Methodist hymns today.
"John Brown's Body" (Roud 771), originally known as "John Brown's Song", is a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The song was popular in the Union during the American Civil War. The song arose out of the folk hymn tradition of the American camp meeting movement of the late 18th and early 19th century. According to an ...
The tune and some of the lyrics of "John Brown’s Body" came from a much older folk hymn called "Say, Brothers will you Meet Us", also known as "Glory Hallelujah", which has been developed in the oral hymn tradition of revivalist camp meetings of the late 1700s, though it was first published in the early 1800s.
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
Bob Dylan wrote "John Brown" in October 1962. [1] Around this time, Dylan often drew on traditional songs when writing his own. [2] While the lyrics to "John Brown" are original, the melody is based on "900 Miles", a well-known song in the US folk music community; [a] about half of that tune is also found in the traditional song "Reuben's Train ...
Singer Victoria Monét and her boyfriend, John Gaines, have something special. After keeping a low-profile early in their romance, the duo announced in December 2020 that they were expecting their ...
Taylor Swift's Midnights 3 A.M. Edition tracks may be among the album's most brutal lyrically, but none express regret quite as strongly as “Would've, Could've, Should've,” seemingly about ...
John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave, (x3) Chorus: Glory, glory, hallelujah! (x3) His soul goes marching on! John Brown died that the slaves might be free, (x3) But his soul goes marching on. He's gone to be a soldier in the army of the Lord, (x3) And his soul is marching on. The stars of heaven are looking kindly down, (x3)