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Thread #17128   Message #4010438
Posted By: Lighter
25-Sep-19 - 10:05 AM
Thread Name: When Johnnie comes marching home
Subject: RE: When Johnnie comes marching home
Mark Twain, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County and Other Sketches" (1867) p. 156:

"Oh, we'll all get blind drunk,
When Johnny comes marching home."

The same words show up in John Ford's movie "The Horse Soldiers" (1959), after the song's "hearty welcome" line.