Editing When Johnny Comes Marching Home (section)

=="Johnny Fill Up the Bowl"==

"Johnny Fill Up the Bowl", which provided the tune for "When Johnny Comes Marching Home", was a topical drinking song that commented on events in the American Civil War. It was frequently refitted with new words by soldiers and other publishers.<ref name="Lighter, p. 19"/>

A satirical variant of "Johnny Fill Up the Bowl", entitled "'''For Bales'''" or, more fully, "For Bales! An O'er True Tale. Dedicated to Those Pure Patriots Who Were Afflicted with 'Cotton on the Brain' and Who Saw The Elephant", was published in [[New Orleans]] in 1864, by [[Armand Blackmar|A. E. Blackmar]].