In dear Old Tennesse / music by Harry L. Newman; words by Olive L. Frields

Authors

Harry L. Newman
Olive L. Frields
Shapiro Music Pub. Co. (New York)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0393

Description

Cover: drawing of a rural landscape with a cottage; photo inset of Sallie Randall.; Publisher: Shapiro Music Pub. Co. (New York)

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States

Relational Format

music score

Original Format

scores

Original Collection

Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/322

Lyrics

Lyrics:
First verse
Oh, away down south in Tennessee, That's the only place to be, Where all nature is in rhyme, Where the sun shines all the time; You can hear those bells a-ringing loud, Hear those darkeys singing proud; With thei rbanjoes on their knee, They are calling, calling me, In Tennessee, In Tennessee.
Chorus
In dear old Tennessee, That's where I long to be, Where skies are ever blue, And hearts are ever true; Where perfumed breezes blow, And sweet magnolias grow, That's where I long to be, Honey, In Tennessee. In dear old Tennessee, That's where I long to be, Where skies are ever blue, And hearts are ever true; Where perfumed breezes blow, And sweet magnolias grow, That's where I long to be, Honey, In Tennessee.
Second verse
Oh, away down south in Tennessee, Just you listen here to me, That's the state where I was born, That's the land of cotton and corn; That is where I left my Tennessee Belle, She's the gal that I loved so well; So, I'm going back to see My own babe in Tennessee, My Honey, In Tennessee.
(Chorus)

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