<h3>"TO CANAAN!"</h3>
<p>This hymn plays quite a part in the music of the Civil War. There is
a negro variation--"Canaan's fair and happy land," given to the old
hymn, "Canaan's happy shore," which, better known by its chorus: "Say,
brothers, will you meet us?" and turned by the soldiers into the grand
"John Brown's body's moldering in the grave, but his soul is marching
on," was paraphrased by Julia Ward Howe into a "battle hymn." And
Holmes wrote "To Canaan," relative to the first levy. And to top
these, the Southerners had a parody on the "Old John Brown," also
called "Lincoln Going to Canaan."
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