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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.
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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.