Lyrics
(African American Spiritual)
When the train comes along (repeat)
I’m gonna meet you at the station
When the train comes along.
If my mother asks for me (repeat)
Tell her I’ll met her at the station
If my mother asks for me.
See also
- Culture: African American Spirituals
- Subject: trains
- Harmony: countermelodies / Orff arrangements / I IV V chords
- Melody: tonic triad / E,F#,G,A,B / D,E,G
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:
- Scale: pentachord
- Tones: l,t,drm
- Source: American Folk Songs for Children,Ruth Crawford Seeger, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948
- PDF of song with chords + Lesson ideas + Orff arrangement
- MIDI file
- Listen to the song
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