When Johnnie Comes Marching Home is described as a "Military Spectacular Comic Opera" and has music by Julian Edwards and lyrics by Stanislaus Stangé. It was produced at the Broadway Theatre, New York, on 16 December 1902.

Dramatis Personæ

MIDI Files

• Prelude

ACT I   -   General Allen's Headquarters.

• No. 1 - Opening Chorus - "Hurrah!  Hurrah!  We sing a jubilee..."
• No. 2 - Sextet - Amelia, Cordelia, Susan, Buckle, Geoffrey, Walker & Chorus - "Oh! this dancing! ... 'Tis entrancing! ..."
• No. 3 - Duet - Cordelia & Geoffrey - "Boys from sixteen to twenty marry at beauty's call..."
• No. 4 - Melodrame
• No. 5 - Song - John - "The poet sings of sunny France, fair olive-laden Spain..."
• No. 6 - Ensemble - Constance, with Amelia, Susan, Buckle, Walker & Chorus - "Now listen to me, I think we agree..."
• No. 7 - Duet - Constance & Allen - "Long ago, do you remember when the day was on the wane..."
• No. 8 - Fairyland - Kate & Chorus - "There is a land whose mystic strand is trod by fancy's feet..."
• No. 9 - Duet - Kate & John - "Why bends to the river the rose? ... Who knows? ..."
• No. 10 - Song - Cordelia, with Amelia, Susan & Female Chorus - "Did you ever gaze into a sweet maiden's eye..."
• No. 11 - "Suwanee River" Quintette - Kate, Constance, Robert, John & Allen - "I fear my dancing has its faults..."
• No. 12 - Finale Act I - "Graceful hopping, never stopping tender squeezing, oh! quite pleasing..."

ACT II   -   Felix Graham's Plantation.

• No. 13 - Introduction & Chorus - "Sing!  Sing!  Darkies sing!  Doan ye heah de banjo ring?..."
• No. 14 - Song - Uncle Tom & Chorus - "When de shadders am a-fallin, and de bee no longer hums..."
• No. 15 - Duet - Kate & John - "Thro' the dark aisles of the night, the summer wind softly blows..."
• No. 16 - Song - Phoenix & Chorus - "A froggy would a-wooing go, alas, alack-a-day! ..."
• No. 17 - Song - Kate - "How sweet the air.  Spring is singing in my heart..."
• No. 18 - Song - John & Men's Chorus - "Her eyes are like the stars above, her cheeks the blushing rose..."
• No. 19a - Ensemble - Amelia, Susan, Buckle, Geoffrey, Walker & Chorus - "Good day, Yankees.  Good day, South! ..."
• No. 19b - Song - Geoffrey & Chorus - "Sweet Charlotte, Charlotte russe suggests; Owen, checks to sign..."
• No. 20 - Duet - Cordelia & Geoffrey - "There are many queer things that we'd better not know..."
• No. 21 - Song - Allen & Chorus - "She's the lace on the skirt of the cold-blooded flirt..."
• No. 22 - Song - Constance - "Time the master passing by, youth and beauty whither die..."
• No. 23 - Finale Act II - "Sir, your son to his home has returned..."

ACT III   -   Scenes 1 to 3   -   Night and Morning within Federal Camps,
and then on the Banks of the Mississippi.

• No. 24 - Introduction and Song - John & Chorus - "Of the stars and the stripes I am dreaming..."
• No. 25 - Song - Cordelia & Female Chorus - "A certain young miss swore she'd never kiss, nor permit any one to kiss her..."
• No. 26 - Song - Phoenix - "One day I took a notion to sail upon the ocean.  Never shall I try it any more..."
• No. 27 - Ensemble - Kate, Constance, Cordelia, John, Allen & Chorus - "The drums, those awful drums..."
• No. 28 - Finale Act III - "Don't make two bites of a cherry - it's a wasteful time, yes, very..."

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