Solidarity Forever is now become one of my favourite songs of all set to the tune of John Brown's Body and Battle Hymn of The Republic.I think thar Raplh Chaplin was a good song writer when he wrote his words to try and not have fights all the time in the first world war. He first plan was to get another writer by the name of Joe Hill to finish the lines but he was too ill and shortly died. In 1941 the song was first recorded by the Almanac Singers with Pete Seeger. Alan Lomax gave him the book for Chaplin to read all the group of the Almanac Singers knew the tune of John Brown's Body and liked it so much. Chaplin died in 1961 and before he died he wrote many history books of what happened in 1854. You can still see them in in museums around the USA.