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