She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain (trad; Roud 4204) Week 244, 16 November 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain (trad; Roud 4204) Week 244, 16 November 2025

Continuing my theme for most of this month of 'campfire songs'*, ie ones suitable for singing round a campfire (simple and easy to join in with), and for most or all of these that's probably where I first heard them. (*since this month is Bonfire Night (aka Guy Fawkes Night, 5th November), and it's the time of year when fires are lit inside - and recently I got the 1977 edition of "The Scout Fire and Folk Song Book" which reminded me of a lot of this sort of song.) "She'll be Coming 'Round the Mountain" is an American song that seems to have emerged in the 1920s - Wikipedia says it's derived from the spiritual "When the Chariot Comes". There's only one line of lyrics per verse, which gets repeated, so it's the sort of song that it's easy to make up verses for, of varying degrees of levity. Or suggestiveness/mild bawdiness - Mudcat has verses where the main lines are "She's got a lovely titillating smile" and "She's got a lovely bottom set of teeth", which sound fine in full, in the the shortened repeats become "She's got a lovely titi-" and She's got a lovely bottom"! The version I remember has a chorus "Singing ay, ay, yippee..."), as does the version in "The Scout Fire and Folk Song Book", but many versions do not (my impression is that UK versions have the chorus, but American ones do not). This song is one I learnt as a kid, either in scouts or at folk camp. The six verses I have sung are the ones I remember singing (first three) and a selection of some of the others - lots more are possible, but I felt six was enough. The verses and chorus have long held notes at the end of lines, which can be sung in a call & response/echo type way, as I have done a bit in the last chorus. For more notes and lyrics see: https://learnenglishkids.britishcounc... https://americansongwriter.com/behind... https://galaxymusicnotes.com/pages/ho... This song has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27l...