John Brown Song (John Brown's Body), Lyric Sheet

Authors

Files

Contributor

Frank and Virginia Williams

Description

This is a lyric sheet for a song titled "Glory Hally, Hallelujah! or the John Brown Song" now known by the title "John Brown's Body", a United States marching song about the abolitionist John Brown. The lyrics are surrounded by United States Flag imagery and the United States shield. The publisher is identified at the bottom of the sheet. This fragile broadside was found tipped in between pages 204-205 of volume two of Abraham Lincoln : A History by John G. Nicolay and John Hay.

Publication Date

1860

Rights

Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.

Publisher

New York : The Century Co

Time Period

1860-1869

Subjects

Brown, John, 1800 – 1859; Songs; Marching songs

Object Type

text

Format (original)

lyric sheet

Format (digital)

PDF

Digital ID

FVW_NH_V2_Lyric-Sheet_001

Source

Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2, pages 204-205

Repository

The Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana Repository

Digital Publisher

Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version)

Contact Information

For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.

Recommended Citation

E457 .N653 2011 V.2, Original Documents and Original photographs in Nicolay and Hay’s Abraham Lincoln , Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana, Mississippi State University Libraries