“Coming ’round the mountain” is a song that has strong childhood implications for me. It brings forth memories of innocence and wonder. I’ve sang it with my child and many other children who are not mine (that I know of) in moments of celebration and merriment.
Only until recently, after a heartfelt conversation I had with my chaste wife, have I realized that this song holds a deeper meaning. A meaning that other parents should definitely take heed of. I don’t mean to cause alarm, but holy fart stars is this song filthy.
(In response to THIS, THIS and THIS).
Preface
The song is a euphemistic dynamo of sexual subversiveness and depravity. Rumour has it that the song supposedly references the second coming of Jesus, but after a little digging and some journalistic gumption, I’ve realized that it’s not about God’s kid at all. It’s about a woman and her odyssey of ‘doing it’ for personal hedonistic gratification.
The lyrics
1: She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain, she’ll be coming ’round the mountain
She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes.
2: She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes
She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes
She’ll be driving six white horses, she’ll be driving six white horses
She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes.
3: We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes
We’ll all go out to meet her, we’ll all go out to meet her
We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes.
4: She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes
She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes
She will have to sleep with Grandma, she will have to sleep with Grandma,
She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes.
5: We’ll kill the old red rooster when she comes
We will kill the big red rooster when she comes
We’ll kill the big red rooster, we will kill the big red rooster
We’ll kill the big red rooster when she comes.
6: She will bring us to the portals when she comes
She will bring us to the portals when she comes
She will bring us to the portals, she will bring us to the portals
She will bring us to the portals when she comes .
7: We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes.
We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes.
We will all have chicken and dumplings, we’ll all have chicken and dumplings.
We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes.
What the lyrics mean
1: “She’ll be coming ’round the mountain when she comes”
A bit redundant for shock value no doubt. She’ll be orgasming around the mountain when she orgasms? Get ahold of yourself (not literally).
2: “She’ll be driving six white horses when she comes”
My friend’s older sister had a personal gratification device called “Six white horses”. It took a lot of batteries and sounded like a leaf blower. I think of her fondly for some reason.
3: “We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes”
A group of people, joining together, to watch someone gratuitously ‘happen’? Sick, dirty and tickets are way too over-priced.
4: “She will have to sleep with Grandma when she comes”
This one writes itself.
5: “We’ll kill the old red rooster when she comes”
This is a reference to the post coital masculine reticence. Also acceptable are ‘flogging the dolphin’, ‘burping the worm’ or ‘watching the sneezed weasel wither’. What was once mighty, is now slumbering in the barnyard.
6: “She will bring us to the portals when she comes”
This has one of two meanings. When I was growing up, The Portals was an establishment for adult males to find gratification with the exchanging of funds or wares. With that said, the portals could also just be another word for climaxing. As in, “I’m about to portal” or “I portaled so hard I burst a blood vessel in my eye” or “I portaled ’round the mountain”.
7: “We will all have chicken and dumplings when she comes”
As everyone knows, ‘chicken and dumplings‘ is a non-specific form of sexual gratification. I could mean second base. It could mean third. It could mean the ol’ how do you do. It could also mean tongue bathing the Sarlacc. It is such a filthy reference that you should just forget I said anything and wash your eyes.
Conclusion
Your children are in danger! Being taught a safe version of the most fundamental of human interactions is unhealthy and frightening. This song is a perfect example of the subversive lengths that teachers and educators will go to in hopes of manipulating your child in to doing sex. Needless to say, I’ve already called my ombudsman about getting this song banned in not only my city, but my mind.
Where is Kirk Cameron when you need him?
The UnDad 
Oh, and sharing a bed with someone of the same gender was a protective & warming way to get some sleep. Houses back then we’re drafty & when you woke up & put your feet on the wood floor, you dressed as fast as you could to get warm again. The pajamas was an add-on at a later date. (If you landed on the couch or floor to sleep, you were cold & miserable, trying to sleep. Houses back then didn’t have a lot of space or spare bedrooms.
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Please… Anyone can take a song and make something dirty of it. Shame on you and your references. I am going to sing it anyhow. I grew up on a farm where we had chicken and dumplings when company came because it was a cheap, filling meal and I killed the old rooster before hand. That was a way of life as was driving horses.
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You’re an idiot. The song has origins in the hymns of black slaves. Most of the lyrics are euphemisms for the return of Christ. Lyrics have been added and altered subsequently, but the suggestion that the song is perverse could only be conjured by perverse minds.
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That’s interesting but incorrect. I suspect this entire interpretation is a matter of your own sexual schemes, frankly. This song is said by some to be a satire of “The Old Ship of Zion (the mountain) and “she” is the whore of Babylon. In Babylon the temple prostitution held of position of power and respect. Six white horses is a funeral procession as in “Six white horses coming after me, I’ll fly away”. The song is about the rapture but it’s also likely a veiled Christian condemnation of the Judaic Most High in lieu of Christ.
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Interestingly, this song often appears in pop culture with extremely violent images attached. In Futurma the robot Bender sing a verse with the lyric “I’ll be killing all the humans in the world.” While Dan Akroyd (who admits his family are steeped in the occult and such was the inspiration for Ghostbusters) sing a verse of this in the movie Grosse Point Blank with the lyric “I’ll be blowing your fucking brains out when I come.”
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I am embarrassed by this and for anyone who tripped upon this in an innocent quest for historical meaning of this song. Please consider young people who read this, and take it down.
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Ill tidy it up fya
She was comin round the mountain blowin smoke
When the chain on her motorcycle broke
She went sliding down the grass with the piston up her arse
And her tits were playing wipeout on the spokes
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Shel be coming like a fountain, on my fukn mountain when she comes
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Seriously?!?! What a ridiculous human being you are… now, I understand that your whole “thing” is humor through sarcasm and satire. The “unDad” proves that point. However, this comedic routine is thinly veiled by a sense of arrogance, that forces a feeling of sincerity, in your use of phrases like, “post coital masculine reticence.” In the unlikely event that this was meant to be a sincere warning about the darkly metaphor of a woman’s sexuality, then what you’re actually alluding to is the fear of turn-of-the-20th-century men that women were sexual creatures. More so, even, that it was something that was “wrong” yet still something that would “infect” everyone around them. Otherwise the song would be more about punishing her, rather than joining her. Just sayin’! Food for thought!
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Lmao. You’re a dirty ass prick, that’s all. I fully expect to find another shitty interpretation after you name your butt plug “Humpty Dumpty”. How bored were you? Deep conversations with my wife. Lol. Lay off the shrooms, ya flope.
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Sounds to me like you and your “chaste” wife need to get six white horses, kill the ol’ rooster, then hit the portals for some chicken and dumplings with your grandma. Get a life, jack off!
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Yes. I am SHE! Yes I was VERY dirty buuuuttttt…….YES IAM HER AND THE CHRIST IS COMING!!! I am Celeste Che Combs MEANINGS- heavenly god will increase valley. I bought land in KINGDOM COME ky. From Mandel Roy Stamper MEANINGS – almond(resurrection) king stamp. Be ready for lift off 2028. Have a nice day!
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Sorry just because rumour has it or hear so say so doesn’t make it a fact. Please read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/She%27ll_Be_Coming_%27Round_the_Mountain
WIKIPEDIA ONLY GIVE THE FACTS.
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It’s about a funeral procession. Grow up
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This song was about Mary Harris who saved the coal miners from being slaughtered. Not at all euphemistic.
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To the people getting bent out of shape, I’m fairly certain this is comedic satire. If you look at his post “Michelle Obama is a man and murdered Joan Rivers” (I think it was Joan Rivers) this should become more apparent. It’s about lying and references the impossibility of trying to sum up all of Trump’s lies except for the fact that someone else already did, which leads one to recognize he is mocking the extreme far right with posts like this one. He’s mocking all the Tucker Carlson’s of the world with faux outrage over non-issues to divert from actual problems happening in government today.
He also lightly references the true origins of the song, which actually was an old slave spiritual hymn, but most blatantly apparent in the lyric “She’ll be riding six white horses when she comes.” The six horses reflect the fact she represents the chariot Jesus is said to ride in on in the second coming.
We live in a world where right wing media obsesses over green M&Ms losing their sexiness, and woke culture cancelling Dr. Seuss (which never happened), Disney’s gay agenda (which isn’t a thing) and then turning around and using religion to push through laws that are authoritarian and deeply rooted in religion in a nation where state and church are written in the constitution as being mandated separated.
Is this post utterly juvenile–of course. Every pubescent boy at one point looked at this song and reimagined it as some unspoken sex tribute. Especially us repressed former Catholic boys. This post is intended to offend anyone on either side of the aisle that just wants to be offended while making the rest of us smirk and think “here is the perfect example of a manchild”–also hinted at by his moniker being the Undad.
His reference to where is Kirk Cameron when you need him also leads me to believe he is close in age to me (I will be 43 in 2 days) as we all watched Kirk Cameron go from being a down to earth young actor into a religious zealot overnight.
That’s my take. If it’s not satire then I have nothing to say except we really need to invest more in education in this country.
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Carlos gets it.
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I am sure that your comments have been carefully thought through, and that they are actually not just ridiculously sexist, and simple-minded.
I am certain that you are aware that the song was used as part of a code for the USA Underground Railroad, which helped slaves to escape.
In the light of these, however, I struggle to comprehend your comments.
It must be some sort of humour.
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Whoever wrote this has a sick mind.
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WoW, twisted minds veer into all the wrong places. The deviance here lays with the mad interpretation of an old country song. It’s sad how fanatics put an evil eye on fun and innocent pursuits.
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Song is about a locomotive in the early railroad days
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This article is bullshit, this song has been around since 1899 ain’t nobody had no fucking battery operated sex toys back then dumbasses!!!
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