About This Song
About "When the Saints Go Marchin' In" by Paul Barbarin And His New Orleans Jazz Band
Paul Barbarin turns a funeral march into a street parade, brass bursting like sunlight through wrought iron. The band’s collective joy is a defiant shout against mourning—syncopated, sweaty, alive. Yet beneath the celebration, a solemn undercurrent: the saints are marching, but the procession knows loss too.