Cifras
John Browns Body

Tono: G

Introducción:

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Old John Brown?s body lies moldering in the grave,
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While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save 
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But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave,
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His soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
verse 2
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John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave,
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And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save 
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Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave,
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His soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
verse 3
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He captured Harper?s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few,
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And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru 
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They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew,
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But his soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
verse 4
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John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see,
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Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be,
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And soon throughout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free,
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For his soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
                                                  B7Em     Am                      D                    G  
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
Verse 5
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The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view,
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On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue.
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And heaven shall ring with anthems o?er the deed they mean to do,
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For his soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
                                                  B7Em     Am                      D                    G  
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
Verse 6
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Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may,
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The death blow of oppression in a better time and way,
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For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day,
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And his soul is marching on.
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah!
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Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!