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She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain (Pub Dom re​-​write)

from Southern Routes [ * BANNED * FAWM​-​5090 * 2022 * ] by ustaknow and friends as listed

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One take recorded as writing then with successive overdubs for initial bounce track, -- the idea so far.

Pub Dom, Traditional late 1800's

lyrics

G// C// G// C//
G d G d C c
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes, when she comes
G d [^d v-c] C *e
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes
G d
She'll be comin' round the mountain
F c
She'll be comin' round the mountain
G d C *^ g
She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes … …


G d C c
She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes, when she comes
Gd C *^ g
She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes
G d
She'll be drivin' six white horses
F f
She'll be drivin' six white horses
C e
She'll be drivin' six white horses
G d C c
She'll be drivin' six white horses when she comes, when she comes
[fcgc]
G// C// FCG// C//

G d C ^e C v c
Oh we'll all go out to meet her when she comes, when she comes
G d C ^e
Oh we'll all go out to meet her when she comes
G d
Oh we'll all go out to meet her
F ^^ f
Oh we'll all go out to meet her
C e G G
Oh we'll all go out to meet her… …, when she comes, when she comes
C e
When she comes, [when she comes]
F f C e
When she comes, [when she comes], when she comes
G
[When she comes,] oh, when she comes
G C e F C
[When she comes,] oh, when she comes

credits

from Southern Routes [ * BANNED * FAWM​-​5090 * 2022 * ], released January 1, 2020
It's all me, - again!

I love re-writing very old public domain Traditionals. This one came to mind sort of ad hoc and found no one else had ever engaged it for a rewrite such as this (just add child's verses to the original melody). So, here you go, a new take on:

"She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain"!, 2019 Copyright ustaknow (alias)

Track art: public domain "mug shot" from New S. Wales, similar period.

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