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The Gospel Train (Get on Board) written by [Traditional]
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aka "Get Along Home, Cindy". A North Carolina folk song using the tune of "Gospel Train (Get on Board)". It is included in elementary school songbooks as an example for folk music. An early version is found in Anne Virginia Culbertson's collection of folk tales, "At the Big House, where Aunt Nancy and Aunt 'Phrony Held Forth on the Animal Folks" (Bobbs-Merrill, 1904).
There are various versions and adaptations.
Original first verse and refrain:
I'se gwine down ter Richmond
I'll tell you w'a hit's for:
I'se gwine down ter Richmond
Fer ter try an' end dis war
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
Good-by, Cindy Ann
An'-a you good-by, Cindy, Cindy
I'se gwine ter Rappahan
As with many folk songs, each singer was free to add verses, and many did. In addition, as Byron Arnold and Bob Halli noted in An Alabama Songbook, performers could swap verses with those of other songs, including "Old Joe Clark" and "Boil Them Cabbage Down"
Modern first verse and refrain -
You ought to see my Cindy
She lives way down South
And she's so sweet the honey bees
All swarm around her mouth
Get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home Cindy, Cindy
Get along home Cindy, Cindy
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The Gospel Train (Get on Board) written by [Traditional] English
The Gospel Train (Get on Board) written by [Traditional] instrumental
Golden Gate Gospel Train written by [Unknown] English
| Title | Performer | Release date | Info | ||
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| Golden Gate Gospel Train | Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet | August 1937 | First release Sampled by Paul Simon |
Cindy written by [Traditional] English
Cindy, Cindy written by Darrell Fuller, Buddy Kaye, Ben Weisman English
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Cindy, Cindy | Elvis Presley | June 1971 |