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This song evolved from an African American Spiritual, When the Chariot Comes, and was sung by railroad workers in the American midwest. (source: Sandburg)
Lyrics
(American folk song)
1. She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes.
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes.
She’ll be coming round the mountain,
She’ll be coming round the mountain,
She’ll be coming round the mountain when she comes.
2. She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes (whoa, back; toot, toot)
3. Oh, we’ll all go out to meet her when she comes (hi, babe!; whoa, back; toot, toot)
4. Oh, we’ll have chicken and dumplins when she comes (yum, yum; hi, babe!; whoa, back; toot, toot)
5. She’ll be wearing red pajamas when she comes (scratch, scratch; yum, yum; hi, babe!; whoa, back; toot, toot)
See also
- Subjects: railroad / horses
- Form: cumulative
- Harmony: partner song with When the Saints Go Marching In / chords I IV V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:Â
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- Scale: major
- Sources: American Folk Songs for Children, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948 /Â The American Songbag, Carl Sandburg, Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
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- MIDI file
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