Lyrics
(African American Spiritual)
Babylon’s falling, falling, falling,
Babylon’s falling to rise no more.
See also
- Culture: African American Spirituals
- Harmony:Â Orff arrangements
- Melody: high & low / steps, skips, repeats /Â do re mi / G, A, B /Â paper xylophones /Â composing melodies
- Meter: 2
- Rhythm:
- Scale: trichord
- Tones: drm
- Source: Folk Songs of the American Negro: Number One. United States: Work Bros., 1907
- story of the fall of Babylon
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