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“John Brown’s Body”


A song of the Civil War that pays tribute to the abolitionist John Brown (see abolitionism). It begins, “John Brown’s body lies a-moldering in the grave.”	1
‡ “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” was written to the tune of “John Brown’s Body.”	2

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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