Lyrics
(African American Spiritual)
This train is bound for glory, this train. (repeat)
This train is bound for glory
If you ride it you must be holy
This train is bound for glory, this train.
See also
- Culture: African American Spirituals
- Subject: trains
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: partner songs / Orff arrangements / chords I, IV, V
- Melody: C,D,F,G,A,C’
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm: syncopation
- Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: American Ballads and Folk Songs, John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax, Macmillan Co, 1934
YouTube
- Printable & Digital Visuals
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
