Lyrics
(Folk tune, Lyrics by Julia Ward Howe, 1861)
1. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Refrain
Glory, glory hallelujah! (repeat twice)
His truth is marching on!
2. I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on. Refrain
3. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on. Refrain
See also
- Country: US
- Type: patriotic
- Form: AB
- Harmony: I, ii, IV, V
- Melody: tonic triad
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: anacrusis /
- Scale: major
- Same tune: Grasshopper / In the Hairy Scary Castle / John Brown’s Baby / Little Peter Rabbit / Pikku Matin auto / She Waded in the Water / SMILE
YouTube
- Song with chords in 2 keys (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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