The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #2014 Message #7330
Posted By: D Terrell
24-Jun-97 - 12:19 PM
Thread Name: ...hung Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree..
Subject: RE:
This is one verse or fragment from a version of John Brown's body.
After hearing some soldiers singing John Brown's body, Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic along the same lines and tune.