Lyrics
When Johnny Comes Marching Home (American)
& Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye (Irish)
traditional with additional words by Chuck Phillips
When Johnny comes marching home again, Hurrah! Hurrah!
We'll give him a hearty welcome then, Hurrah! Hurrah!
The men will cheer, the boys will shout,
The ladies they will all turn out,
And we'll all feel glad
When Johnny comes marching home.
The old church bells will ring with joy, Hurrah! Hurrah!
To welcome home our soldier boy, Hurrah! Hurrah!
The village boys and girls wave
With roses they will strew the way,
And we'll all feel glad
When Johnny comes marching home.
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, Hurrah! Hurrah!
With your drums and guns and drums and guns, Hurrah! Hurrah!
With their tanks and bombs and ships and planes
The enemy almost slaughtered you
My darling boy, you look so strange
Johnny I hardly knew you
Where are your legs that used to run, Hurrah! Hurrah!
Where are your legs that used to run, Hurrah! Hurrah!
Where are your legs that used to run
When you went to war to carry a gun
Indeed your dancing days are done
Johnny, I hardly knew you
They're rolling out the guns again, Hurrah! Hurrah!
They're rolling out the guns again, Hurrah! Hurrah!
They're rolling out the guns again
But they'll never take our sons again
No they'll never take our sons again
Johnny I'm swearing to you
Approximately 35 to 40 million soldiers around the world have died in the wars of the 20th Century.
20 million died in World War 2 from 1937 to 1945
8.5 million died in World War 1 from 1914 to 1918
1.2 million died in the Korean War from 1950 to 1953
1.2 million died in the Chinese Civil war from 1945 to 1949
1.2 million died in the Vietnam War from 1965 to 1973
Almost 1 million died in the Iran-Iraq war from 1980 to 1988
800,000 died in the Russian Civil war from 1918 to 1921
400,000 died in the earlier Chinese civil war from 1927 to 1937
385,000 died in the French Indochina wars from 1945 to 1955
200,000 died in the Mexican Revolution from 1911 to 1920
200,000 died in the Spanish Civil war from 1936 to 1939
160,000 died in the French-Algerian war from 1954 to 1962
150,000 died in Afghanistan from 1980 to 1989
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