Mississippi Days 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 19 Aug 2009
2009

Water melons never grew
on huckleberry vines,
you won't find a snowbird resting
in the Southern climes.
Where things grow they ought to be
take them some place else and see
they'll fade away and pine and die,
and that's what's wrong with me.

Those Mississippi days,
and Mississippi ways
those old plantation songs
while steamboats puffed,
puffed along, puffed along by the river,
Mississippi nights and Mississippi sights,
Oh! how my heart is burning
thoughts are turning
I'm yearning,
How I miss those Mississippi days.

Those Mississippi days,
and Mississippi ways
those old plantation songs
while steamboats puffed,
puffed along, puffed along by the river,
Mississippi nights and Mississippi sights,
Oh! how my heart is burning
thoughts are turning
I'm yearning,
How I miss those Mississippi days.

Pick a rose and put it on
the parlor mantle shelf,
it will only droop and die,
the same case fits myself.
When I can't see friends I know
places that my heart loves so,
I'm like the rose that never grows,
'cept where it's s'posed to grow.

Those Mississippi days,
and Mississippi ways
those old plantation songs
while steamboats puffed,
puffed along, puffed along by the river,
Mississippi nights and Mississippi sights,
Oh! how my heart is burning
thoughts are turning
I'm yearning,
How I miss those Mississippi days.

Those Mississippi days,
and Mississippi ways
those old plantation songs
while steamboats puffed,
puffed along, puffed along by the river,
Mississippi nights and Mississippi sights,
Oh! how my heart is burning
thoughts are turning
I'm yearning,
How I miss those Mississippi days.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Mississippi Days 1916
Music by Al. Piantadosi
Lyrics by Ballard MacDonald
© MCMXVI by Shapiro, Bernstein & Co.Inc. - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 19 August 2009 at 10.59
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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