Chords for BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC - Johnny Cash

_ [Bbm] _ [Bb] _ _ _ Here's a song that was [G] reportedly sung by both [Bb] sides in the Civil War, which [B] proves
one thing [Bbm] to me that [Gm] the song can belong to [Bb] all of us.
You don't have to be a rich man to have a beautiful thing like music. _
I could close my eyes and hear this song and picture a group of beaten, wounded, ragged
Civil War soldiers trying to make that last mile home after the last battle.
And if there was strength for a song, this would have been a great inspiration.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Ab] His truth is [Bb] [Eb] marching on.
_ _ Glory, glory, _ hallelujah.
_ [Ab] _ Glory, glory, [Eb] _ hallelujah.
_ _ Glory, glory, _ hallelujah.
[Ab] His truth [Bb] is [Eb] marching [C] on.
[F] I have seen him in the watchfire of a hundred circling camps.
[Bb] They have builded him an altar [F] in the evening dews and damps.
I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and glaring lamps.
[Bb] His day [C] is marching [F] _ on.
[C] _ [F] _ Glory, glory, _ hallelujah.
_ [Bb] _ Glory, glory, [F] _ hallelujah.
_ Glory, glory, _ [A] [Dm] hallelujah.
[Bb] His day [C] is [F] marching on.
[E] _ [B] [E] In the beauty of the lilies, Christ was born across the sea.
With [A] a glory in his bosom that [E]
transfigures you and me.
As he dies to make men holy, let us live to make men free.
[A] While God [B] is marching [E] on. _ _ _
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
_ _ [A] _
Glory, glory, [E] _ _ hallelujah. _
Glory, glory, _ _ hallelujah.
[A] His truth [B] is marching [E] _ [C] on.
_ [F] _
_ Glory, glory, hallelujah.
_ [Bb]
Glory, glory, _ [F] hallelujah. _ _
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
[Dm] _ _ [Bb] His truth [C] is marching [F] _ on.
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