Sheet Music, 1910-1919
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ISBN
MUM00682, 0509
Description
Cover: a profile photo of a woman; photo inset of George Austin Moore; Publisher: F. A. Mills (New York)
Subject Headings (Library of Congress)
Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States
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Original Collection
Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries
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Lyrics
Lyrics:
First verse
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 ninty-six, Oh! Mona now that you're free, Can't you see the lovin' place I want to be.
Chorus
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'ryone'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 goes, 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'ryone'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 goes, Take me to that Swanee shore.
Second verse
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.
(Chorus)
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