Don't Cry Swanee 1923 Al Jolson

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 6 May 2011
2011

Since I left my home
o'er the world to roam
I have learned a lesson
all the wanderers learn.
Ever thru' the years
comes the sound of tears
it's my dear old Swanee
crying for my return.

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Swanee sun will find its room again
in my mammy's face,
and Swanee rose will come and bloom again
In that same sweet place;
White as cotton is her hair
with all its silver charms!
But she will say goodbye to gloom again
when I'm in her arms!

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Swanee, you were gay,
In that bygone day
when I watched you flowing
right in front of my door.
Now you seem so sad
that I won't be glad,
'til you're once more smiling
as in the days of yore.

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Swanee sun will find its room again
in my mammy's face,
and Swanee rose will come and bloom again
In that same sweet place;
White as cotton is her hair
with all its silver charms!
But she will say goodbye to gloom again
when I'm in her arms!

Don't cry Swanee
I'm coming home to you!
Don't cry Swanee
I'm just as lonesome too.
You're like my Mammy's teardrops
shining for me,
yes, shining for me;
While she waits there
Pining for me, yes,
pining for me,
but don't cry Swanee
Just let me cry for you!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Don't Cry Swanee 1923 Al Jolson
by Al Jolson, B. G. De Sylva & Con Conrad
© MCMXXIII by Harms Inc.  N.Y.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 6 May 2011 at 16.29
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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