My Sunny Tennessee 1921 Eddie Cantor

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 16 Nov 2007
2007

When the shades of night are falling,
Tennessee, I hear you calling;
my thoughts just roam
back to home, sweet home.
Ev'ry day my heart grows fonder,
of the folks I left down yonder,
I wonder when I'll be there again.

I wanna be in Tennessee
in my Dixie paradise,
as angel's voice I hear,
I mean my mammy, dear.
I'd give my soul if I could stroll
down among those hills again,
For all the world would not be dreary then.
I'd love to go to sleep and know,
that tomorrow I'd arise,
beneath those southern skies,
where song birds harmonise.
Lawdy hear my plea,
make me what I wanna be;
a rolling stone just rolling home
to my sunny Tennessee.

I wanna be in Tennessee
in my Dixie paradise,
as angel's voice I hear,
I mean my mammy, dear.
I'd give my soul if I could stroll
down among those hills again,
For all the world would not be dreary then.
I'd love to go to sleep and know,
that tomorrow I'd arise,
beneath those southern skies,
where song birds harmonise.
Lawdy hear my plea,
make me what I wanna be;
a rolling stone just rolling home
to my sunny Tennessee.

Ev'ry dream and ev'ry vision,
simply strengthens my decision;
to go back home
never more to roam.
When I hear the 'Swanee River'
my poor heart begins to quiver,
it's then I miss Mammy's goodnight kiss.

I wanna be in Tennessee
in my Dixie paradise,
as angel's voice I hear,
I mean my mammy, dear.
I'd give my soul if I could stroll
down among those hills again,
For all the world would not be dreary then.
I'd love to go to sleep and know,
that tomorrow I'd arise,
beneath those southern skies,
where song birds harmonise.
Lawdy hear my plea,
make me what I wanna be;
a rolling stone just rolling home
to my sunny Tennessee.

I wanna be in Tennessee
in my Dixie paradise,
as angel's voice I hear,
I mean my mammy, dear.
I'd give my soul if I could stroll
down among those hills again,
For all the world would not be dreary then.
I'd love to go to sleep and know,
that tomorrow I'd arise,
beneath those southern skies,
where song birds harmonise.
Lawdy hear my plea,
make me what I wanna be;
a rolling stone just rolling home
to my sunny Tennessee.

Soft karaoke
Words
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lyric
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My Sunny Tennessee 1921 Eddie Cantor
by Bert Kalman, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby
© MCMXXI by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co.
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from "The Midnight Rounders of 1921"
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Friday 16 November 2007 at 12.19
in association with Doug Grierson
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