When Johnny Comes Marching Home

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home"
Sheet music cover, 1863
Song
Published1863; 161 years ago (1863)
Songwriter(s)Louis Lambert a.k.a. Patrick Gilmore
Audio sample
c. 1990 U.S. Military Academy Band performance

"When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (Roud 6637), sometimes "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again", is a song from the American Civil War that expressed people's longing for the return of their friends and relatives who were fighting in the war.