When Johnny Comes Marching Home
by Patrick Gilmore (as Louis Lambert)
Free sheet music library / When Johnny Comes Marching Home
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- Key
- A minor
- Tempo
- ♩ = 120
- Time
- 4/4
- Bars
- 9
- Level
- Easy · Difficulty 4 of 10
- Genre
- Folk songs
- Origin
- United States
- Composer
- Patrick Gilmore (as Louis Lambert) (1829–1892)
About this piece
A Civil War song written by Patrick Gilmore in 1863 under a pen name, which became popular on both sides of the war. It is in a minor key but sounds defiant and cheerful.
Why it is free to use
Patrick Gilmore (as Louis Lambert) died in 1892, more than 70 years ago, and the piece dates from about 1863. This encoding is our own; no published edition was copied.
About this score
This score of When Johnny Comes Marching Home is a short excerpt (the opening, or the first verse of the song), not the whole piece. It was written by SampLab Pro from the public-domain music. It is not copied from any printed edition, MIDI file or recording. We place our score in the public domain (CC0 1.0): anyone may copy, change, share and use it, including commercially, without asking. The left hand is our own simple accompaniment, made from the chords of the tune.