Glecio Nascimento (She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain/Jesse James)

Glecio Nascimento (She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain/Jesse James) “She’ll Be Coming Round The Mountain” has some interesting roots. It was derived from a spiritual, “When the Chariot Comes” about the second coming of Jesus Christ and the subsequent Rapture. In this version “she” refers to union organizer Mary Harris “Mother” Jones, who traveled the southern United States to promote the formation of labor unions in the Appalachian coal mining camps. The song was also popular with railroad work gangs in th