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We are traveling in the footsteps

Of those who've gone before

But we'll all be reunited (but if we stand reunited)

On a new and sunlit shore (then a new world is in store)

 

Oh when the saints go marching in

When the saints go marching in

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine

And when the sun refuse (begins) to shine

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

When the moon turns red with blood

When the moon turns red with blood

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

On that hallelujah day

On that hallelujah day

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

Oh when the trumpet sounds the call

Oh when the trumpet sounds the call

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

Some say this world of trouble

Is the only one we need

But I'm waiting for that morning

When the new world is revealed

 

When the revelation (revolution) comes

When the revelation (revolution) comes

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

When the rich go out and work

When the rich go out and work

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

When the air is pure and clean

When the air is pure and clean

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

When we all have food to eat

When we all have food to eat

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

When our leaders learn to cry

When our leaders learn to cry

Oh lord I want to be in that number

When the saints go marching in

 

Louis Armstrong : When The Saints Go Marching In

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Lyrics are strangely fitting to us anyway.

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A traditional use of the song is as a funeral march. In the funeral music tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana, often called the "jazz funeral", while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band would play the tune as a dirge. On the way back from the interment, it would switch to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style. While the tune is still heard as a slow spiritual number on rare occasions, from the mid-20th century it has been massively more common as a "hot" number

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A traditional use of the song is as a funeral march. In the funeral music tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana, often called the "jazz funeral", while accompanying the coffin to the cemetery, a band would play the tune as a dirge. On the way back from the interment, it would switch to the familiar upbeat "hot" or "Dixieland" style. While the tune is still heard as a slow spiritual number on rare occasions, from the mid-20th century it has been massively more common as a "hot" number

 

The idea of the afterlife being a happy place, I suppose. Not if you're going down though

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