Patrick Gilmore

Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (December 25, 1829 – September 24, 1892) was an Irish-born American composer and military bandmaster who lived and worked in the United States after 1848. While serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Gilmore wrote the lyrics to the song "When Johnny Comes Marching Home". This was published under the pseudonym Louis Lambert in September 1863.

Quotes

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home", by the USMA Band

• When Johnny comes marching home again,
     Hurrah, hurrah,
  We'll give him a hearty welcome then,
     Hurrah, hurrah;
  The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
  The ladies, they will all turn out,
     And we'll all feel gay,
  When Johnny comes marching home.
  • "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", st. 1, in Beadle's Dime Song Book, no. 15 (1863), p. 18
  • Cf. the lyrics in Jean Thomas, Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky (1939), p. 54:

    In eighteen hundred and sixty-one, that was when the war begun,
    In eighteen hundred and sixty-two, both sides were falling to,
    In eighteen hundred and sixty-three, Abe Lincoln set the darkies free,
    In eighteen hundred and sixty-four, Abe called for five hundred thousand more,
    In eighteen hundred and sixty-five, they talked rebellion—strife;
      And we'll all drink stone wine, when Johnny comes marching home.

See also

• Joseph B. Geoghegan

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Patrick Gilmore on Wikipedia