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Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
18-Nov-11 - 05:57 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: When the Train Comes Along (Macon)
Subject: Lyr. Add: When the Train Comes Along (Frogmore SC)
Lyr. Add: WHEN THE TRAIN COMES ALONG Spiritual, Frogmore, SC
1 When the train comes along, When the train comes along, I will meet you at the station When the train comes along. 2 When the train comes along (2x) I will meet you at the station When the train comes along. If my mother ask for me, Tell her death done summons me; I will meet you at the station When the train comes along. 3- etc. Relationships
Last verse When the train comes along, etc. Oh I may be blind and cannot see; I will meet you at the station When the train comes along.
With musical score, 4/4, pp. 4-5. Collected 1913, the Black settlement of Frogmore, SC. Carl Diton, 1928, Thirty-Six South Carolina Spirituals, G. Schirmer Inc. New York.