Marching On to Victory

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Marching, marching, marching on to victory

Author: Horatius R. Palmer
Tune: [Marching, marching, marching on to victory]
Published in 4 hymnals

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1 Marching, marching, marching on to victory,
Raise our banner high,
Let it reach the sky;
Marching, marching, marching on to victory,
Lift the temp’rance banner high.
“Touch not, taste not, handle not” the dreadful thing,
Serpent fangs lie hidden in the bowl;
“Touch not, taste not, handle not” the dreadful thing,
Poison not the precious soul.

Refrain:
Brothers, let us then be
Marching, marching, marching on to victory,
Raise our banner high
Let it reach the sky;
Marching, marching, marching on to victory,
Lift the temp’rance banner high.

2 Marching, marching, marching on to victory,
See the dreadful foe!
Hear the cry of woe;
Weeping thousands urge us on to victory,
Falter not, but onward go.
Sweeping surging, like a mighty tidal wave,
Far and wide the whelming waters roll.
Victims soon will be beyond our pow’r to save,
Soon they’ll reach the horrid goal. [Refrain]

Source: Crowning Day, No. 6: A Book of Gospel Songs #236

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Author: Horatius R. Palmer

Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In A… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Marching, marching, marching on to victory
Title:	Marching On to Victory
Author:	Horatius R. Palmer
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Brothers, let us then be marching
Copyright:	Public Domain