Lyrics
(African American Spiritual)
Refrain
Old Zion’s children marching along, marching along, marching along,
Old Zion’s children marching along
Talking about the welcome day
1. I hailed my mother in the morning
Marching along, marching along
I hailed my mother in the morning
Talking about the welcome day Refrain
2. I hailed my brother in the morning…
3. O don’t you want to live up yonder…
See also
- Culture: African American Spirituals
- Form: ABA
- Harmony: Orff arrangements / chords I, IV, V
- Meter: 4
- Rhythm:Â
 / steady beat / syncopation - Scale: pentatonic
- Tones: drmsl
- Source: Silver Burdett Music, Early Childhood, Silver Burdett Company, 1981
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- Printable & Digital Visuals
- Song with chords, Lesson Ideas for Form (ABA), Rhythm (Steady Beat, Syncopation, Dotted Eighth – Sixteenth Note Patterns), Orff Arrangement
- MIDI file
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1 thought on “Old Zion’s Children”
Thank you for sharing this. My class sang this song in first grade or so, but I never did understand whose children were marching along.