We sang this song around 1957-58 at Alexandria Elementary School, in Alexandria, Alabama. I remember a little paragraph with the song that said the words were written by a class of students somewhere. The picture that was on the page with the music was a group of wagons in a wagon train, of course. Oddly enough, I remember the second verse better than the first. The second verse goes like this: We will camp tonight, at a pleasant site, And we'll sing to the banjo's strum. To the fiddle's squeal, we will dance a reel, And be happy all the day long. Roll along Wagon Train, Roll along Wagon Train, Roll along Wagon Train, Roll along across the plains. First verse went something like this: All across the plains roll our Wagon Trains, On the way to the gold fields far, dum, dum, dum, de dum......
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