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When Johnny Comes Marching Home

In 1883, Patrick Gilmore announced that he had developed "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" from "Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye." "When Johnny Comes Marching Home: The Leader 10:12 (October 1885) 2; cited in Hazen, 127.

Therefore, I will edit the page correspondingly. Academic decathlete (talk) 06:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This hasn't been changed yet a number of years later, can somebody append it! The fact that this even needed a direct quote reeks of American's being butt-hurt about their most famous war song not even being American in origin. Ha!

The final, modern verse

The first time I heard this final verse sung ("They're running out the guns again...") was in New York by prolific songwriter Tommy Makem during the run-up to the "First" Gulf War of 1990-91. This song had long been a regular feature in Makem's repertoire. I suspect he added the verse at that time, reflecting his strong feelings about the matter. I have no evidence to back this supposition up, but post it here on the talk page for what it's worth. Trevor Hanson (talk) 21:47, 13 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I learned this song from an old Mel Bay book that cited the origens to about 1805 when Irish conscripts were returning home after fighting for England in Cylone Island. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.235.114.217 (talk) 00:00, 29 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Why did ye run from me and the child

quote from the article: "Why did ye run from me and the child?" sometimes replaces "Why did ye run from me and the child?"

I don't know what it could replace, but replacing itself is quite philosophical, maybe someone could be so kind to correct this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.179.194.122 (talk) 12:50, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Dr Strangelove

Isn't this the song used at the end of the film Dr Strangelove? -- 87.144.116.248 (talk) 12:17, 12 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, that's probably meant to be the iconic American Civil War song When Johnny Comes Marching Home, although, as it's instrumental, one cannot be sure, as they share the same melody, but the context would imply that it's WJCMH rather than JIHKY.88.131.91.2 (talk) 12:51, 9 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Audio File?

Could we put a mp3 file with the music to this song? There's got to be a non-copyrighted version, this song is in the public domain. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.173.109.115 (talk) 15:36, 19 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 Therefore, I will edit the page correspondingly.
 [[User:Academic decathlete|Academic decathlete]] ([[User talk:Academic decathlete|talk]]) 06:27, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
+This hasn't been changed yet a number of years later, can somebody append it!  The fact that this even needed a direct quote reeks of American's being butt-hurt about their most famous war song not even being American in origin. Ha!
 == The final, modern verse ==