John Browns Body Teclado

	  
verse 1 
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Old John Brown’s body lies moldering in the grave, 
       C                               G 
While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; 
                               B7                 Em 
But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, 
    Am      D        G 
His soul is marching on. 

G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on! 

verse 2 
G 
John Brown was a hero, undaunted, true and brave, 
    C                              G 
And Kansas knows his valor when he fought her rights to save; 
                         B7              Em 
Now, tho the grass grows green above his grave, 
    Am      D        G 
His soul is marching on. 

G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on! 

verse 3 
G 
He captured Harper’s Ferry, with his nineteen men so few, 
    C                                  G 
And frightened "Old Virginny" till she trembled thru and thru; 
                                B7                  Em 
They hung him for a traitor, themselves the traitor crew, 
        Am      D        G 
But his soul is marching on. 
 
G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!
 

verse 4 
G 
John Brown was John the Baptist of the Christ we are to see, 
C                                   G 
Christ who of the bondmen shall the Liberator be, 
                                        B7                  Em 
And soon throughout the Sunny South the slaves shall all be free, 
        Am      D        G 
For his soul is marching on. 

G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on! 

Verse 5 
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The conflict that he heralded he looks from heaven to view, 
C                                 G 
On the army of the Union with its flag red, white and blue. 
                                            B7                Em 
And heaven shall ring with anthems o’er the deed they mean to do, 
        Am      D        G 
For his soul is marching on. 

G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on! 

Verse 6 
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Ye soldiers of Freedom, then strike, while strike ye may, 
    C                             G 
The death blow of oppression in a better time and way, 
                                   B7              Em 
For the dawn of old John Brown has brightened into day, 
        Am      D        G 
And his soul is marching on. 

G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
C                  G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! 
                   B7 Em  Am         D        G 
Glory, glory, hallelujah! his soul's marching on!