Take Me To That Swanee Shore 1912

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Jun 2008
2008

See those mokes, real colored folks,
singing, dancing, laughing,
telling old minstrel jokes,
See the picks, doing tricks,
led by Deacon Johnson
who just turned ninety six
Oh! Mona now that you're free,
can't you see
the lovin' place I want to be.

Oh won't you take me
to that Swanee shore,
so I can see old Mammy dance once more,
Old Black Joe, Hannah Snow,
There's Daddy and Mammy,
there's Ephram and Sammy,
Ev'ry one's there to have a jubilee,
the boys just arrived up on the Nancy Lee,
Down where that River flows,
back there my heart sure grows,
Take me to that Swanee shore.

Oh won't you take me
to that Swanee shore,
so I can see old Mammy dance once more,
Old Black Joe, Hannah Snow,
There's Daddy and Mammy,
there's Ephram and Sammy,
Ev'ry one's there to have a jubilee,
the boys just arrived up on the Nancy Lee,
Down where that River flows,
back there my heart sure grows,
Take me to that Swanee shore.

See that fool, old happy fool,
Watch him laughin' 'cause
he's ticklin' Eph' Johnson's mule,
see that pair, over there,
lovin' huggin' people watchin'
but they don't care,
Oh! Mona now that they're free,
happy they'll be,
in the land of mirth and glee.

Oh won't you take me
to that Swanee shore,
so I can see old Mammy dance once more,
Old Black Joe, Hannah Snow,
There's Daddy and Mammy,
there's Ephram and Sammy,
Ev'ry one's there to have a jubilee,
the boys just arrived up on the Nancy Lee,
Down where that River flows,
back there my heart sure grows,
Take me to that Swanee shore.

Oh won't you take me
to that Swanee shore,
so I can see old Mammy dance once more,
Old Black Joe, Hannah Snow,
There's Daddy and Mammy,
there's Ephram and Sammy,
Ev'ry one's there to have a jubilee,
the boys just arrived up on the Nancy Lee,
Down where that River flows,
back there my heart sure grows,
Take me to that Swanee shore.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Take Me To That Swanee Shore 1912
Music by Lewis F.Muir
Lyrics by L.Wolfe Gilbert
© 1912 by F.A.Mills - New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Sunday 22 June 2008 at 09.19
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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