The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Words & Music:

Julia Ward Howe

 

There is a solo acoustic guitar arrangement of this in the March 2009 issue of Acoustic Guitar.

 

     C

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

      F                                   C

He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored,

       C

He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword

    Dm       C    G7  C

His truth is marching on.

 

CHORUS:

C                          F                  C

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!  Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!

C                    F         Dm       G7       C

Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!  His truth is marching on!

 

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.

 

CHORUS:

 

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d 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.

 

CHORUS:

 

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!

Our God is marching on.

 

CHORUS:

 

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.

 

CHORUS:

 




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