She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain
Folk · 1800s · Traditional American folk song, derived from the 19th-century spiritual “When the Chariot Comes”
Sing She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain with pitch feedback
“She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain” is transcribed here with its tonic on C4 at 128 bpm in 4 beats to the bar. The 11 notes span E3 to C4 — 8 semitones — which rates Easy to sing, and a full 4-pass session runs about 0:23.
8 semitones as transcribed. The practice room transposes it to sit in your own range.
- One time through
- 0:06 at 128 bpm
- A full session
- 0:23 — 4 passes
- Leaps of a third or more
- 1
She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain lyrics, as transcribed here
- She'll be comin' round the mountain when she comes,
The songbook transcribes the opening phrase rather than the whole song, because 4 tight repetitions of a phrase you can hear yourself improve on beats one distracted run at the full thing.
Origin and copyright status
Traditional folk song of unknown authorship, documented since the 19th century.
- Attribution
- Traditional American folk song, derived from the 19th-century spiritual “When the Chariot Comes”
- Language
- English
Every melody in the songbook is public domain, which is why the whole thing can be sung in a browser without a licence. A specific recording or arrangement of the same tune can still be under copyright — this is our own transcription of the melody.
Genre, era and what it drills
Tags describe what the melody asks of a voice, not what it sounds like — “folk” is the reason to pick it on a given day.