Historic Sheet Music Collection
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Document Type
Score
Links to Recordings at the Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_al-jolson-george-gershwin-irving-caesar-carmen-dragon_gbia0017018b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_al-jolson-mr-jolson-gershwin_gbia0016741b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_all-star-trio-george-gershwin_gbia0013420b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_columbia-dance-orchestra-charles-a-prince-gershwin_gbia0016779a
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_gene-rodemichs-orchestra-gershwin_gbia0038128b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_georgie-stoll-and-his-orchestra-irving-caesar-george-gershwin_gbia0009332b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_jaye-p-morgan-hugo-winterhalters-orchestra-and-chorus-irving-caesar-george_gbia0026395a
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_judy-garland-victor-young-and-his-orchestra-george-gershwin-ira-gershwin_gbia0007265b
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_pan-pacific-tempo-orchestra-herb-kern-george-gershwin-irving-caesar_gbia0006436a
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_pan-pacific-tempo-orchestra-herb-kern-george-gershwin-irving-caesar_gbia0036827a
https://archive.org/details/78_swanee_peerless-quartet-i.-caesar-george-gershwin_gbia0013376b
Publication Date
1919
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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 long to be,
The birds are singing
It is song-time
The banjos 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 now my Mammy’s
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
(I’ll be happy, I’ll be happy)
[Trio]
Swanee
Swanee
I am coming back to Swanee
Mammy
Mammy
I love the old folks at home.
Recommended Citation
Caesar, Irving and Gershwin, George, "Swanee" (1919). Historic Sheet Music Collection. 1304.
https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/sheetmusic/1304
The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author.
Comments
New York: Harms, Inc. (1919)
From The Jolson Story
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