[Dixielandjazz] When the Saints verses.

[Bill Haesler]

Kevin Yeates wrote:
> I was putting together a lead sheet for When the Saints when I kept 
> thinking that there is a verse and a chorus to that piece.  My 
> recollection is the melody of the verse is similar but different from 
> the chorus.  The melody of the chorus is the tune that everybody > 
> knows.
>  Am I imagining things or is there actually a separate tune for the 
> verse?  If so, does anybody have it?

Dear Kevin,
Is this what you had in mind?
Kind regards,
Bill.

WHEN THE SAINTS
COME MARCHING IN
We are trav'ling in the footsteps
Of those who've gone before
And we'll all be reunited,
On a new and sunlit shore,

Oh, when the saints go marching in,
Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in

And when the sun begins to shine
And when the sun begins to shine
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the sun begins to shine

Oh, when the saints go marching in,
Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in

Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
Oh, when the trumpet sounds its call
Lord, how I want to be in that number
When the trumpet sounds its call

Oh, when the saints go marching in,
Oh, when the saints go marching in
Lord how I want to be in that number
When the saints go marching in

OR:

    I am just a lonesome trav’ler,
Through this big, wide world of sin;
Want to join that grand procession,
When the saints go marching in.

	Refrain:
Oh, when the saints go marching in,
Oh, when the saints go marching in;
Lord, I want to be in that number,
When the saints go marching in.

     All my folks have gone before me,
All my friends and all my kin;
But I’ll meet with them up yonder,
When the saints go marching in.

    Come and join me in my journey,
’Cause it’s time that we begin;
And we’ll be there for that judgment,
When the saints go marching in.