Info
This is a derivation of a “spiritual” song known as “When the Chariot Comes”. The song refers to the Second Coming of Christ and subsequent Rapture. The she refers to the chariot the returning Christ is imagined as driving. (source)
Lyrics
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
- songs about horses, donkeys, mules & camels
- cumulative songs
- songs with I IV V chords
- songs with both dotted eighth – sixteenth & sixteenth – dotted eighth note patterns
- Kindergarten lesson
- lesson with rhythm instruments
- more lyrics
- source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
YouTube
Extras for Plus Members
- Song with chords in 2 keys (PDF)
- MIDI file
- Listen
