♪ Music Book Companion

Song 49 in Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors

Battle Hymn of the Republic

Also known as: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory

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For Easy Piano for Adults and Seniors.

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All the words

  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 hath loosed the fateful lightnings of His terrible swift sword:
    His truth is marching on.
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    Glory, glory, hallelujah!
    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.

  3. I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
    "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
    Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
    Since God is marching on."

  4. He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat:
    He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgement seat:
    Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant my feet!
    Our God is marching on!

  5. 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.

About this song

Music
American camp-meeting tune "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us" (c. 1856), attributed to William Steffe (1830–1890)
Words
Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910)
First published
Words 1862 (The Atlantic Monthly, February); tune printed c. 1856–1861
Copyright
Public domain in the US, UK and EU. The arrangement and recordings belong to the book.

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