Signup for Vi Wickam’s Fiddle Tune a Day: www.vithefiddler.com When I hear (or play) When Johnny Comes Marching Home, it totally transports me mentally to civil war times. I can hear the drummer and the marching, and I can Imagine a soldier coming home to his family who had been missing him, and wondering if he would ever return alive. It’s a sad melody to me, and I think it brings up the sadness of war time even when someone is returning home. How does it make you feel? (Please leave me a comment and let me know.) When Johnny Comes Marching Home According to Fiddler’s Companion HEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME. AKA and see “Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye.” American, Scottish; Country Dance Tune (6 time). A Minor (Kerr): B Minor (Sweet). Standard tuning. One part (Sweet): AB (Kerr). The tune uses much melodic material from the Scottish air “John Anderson my Jo.” See note for “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye.” Kerr (Merry Melodies), vol. 1; No. 6, pg. 28. Sweet (Fifer’s Delight), 1965/1981; pg. 11. Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye according to Fiddler’s Companion JOHNNY I HARDLY KNEW YE. AKA and see “When Johnny Comes Marching Home.” Irish, American; March (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning. One part. O’Neill (1922) notes: “Classed as a street ballad in Halliday Sparling’s Irish Minstrelsy,London 1887, the editor adds, in a note on page 366, *** Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye ! This favorite old song is here for the first time given complete. It dates from the beginning of the present century (19th …