Swanee
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| Swanee (1919) |
[Introduction]
- I've been away from you a long time
- I never thought I'd miss you so
- Somehow I feel
- Your love was real
- Near you I want to be
- The birds are singing It is songtime[1]
- The banjos[2] strummin' soft and low
- I know that you
- Yearn for me too
- Swanee You're calling me
[Refrain]
- Swanee
- How I love you
- How I love you
- My dear old Swanee
- I'd give the world to be
- Among the folks in D-I-X-I-Even know my
- Mammy's[3]
- Waiting for me
- Praying for me
- Down by the Swanee
- The folks up north will see me no more
- When I go to the Swanee shore
[Spoken]
- I'll be happy
- I'll be happy
[Trio[4] (sung twice)]
- Swanee
- Swanee
- I am coming back to Swanee
- Mammy
- Mammy
- I love the old folks at home[5]
Notes [edit]
- ↑ The capitalisation of "it" may mean this should be punctuated as The birds are singing, "It is songtime."
- ↑ Presumably this should be "banjo's"
- ↑ A nursemaid, usually black. Increasingly stereotyped portrayals of mammys led to the term being considered offensive now, but this was probably not intended in this song.
- ↑ A technical term for the composition style of the piano part. There remains only one singer
- ↑ A reference, in both lyrics and music, to the Stephen Foster song "The Old Folks at Home", which begins "Way down upon the Swanee River". This song is largely a parody of that one.
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