a popular song from 1935
Words by Victor Selsman and Irving Brown
Music by Ray Bloch.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Left my mammy’s cabin long ago
Left the sunny South I used to know
And the white folks’ town
Became the home for me
But the city streets are endless
I’m alone, I’m tired and friendless
There is just one spot I long to be
Chorus
Deep south, like an echo
You’re reminding me
Why all the bitter tears keep blinding me
Deep south, I want to go home
Deep south, someone’s waiting
By the ‘glory vine
I miss the kissin’ of that honey mine
Deep south, no more will I roam
I don’t need the Jordan River
When I get the travlin’ blues
Give me that ol’ ‘Sippi’ River
And I’ll walk over Heaven
With my trav’lin’ shoes
Deep south, like a robin flyin’ to its nest
My heart is sobbin’ give me peace and rest
Deep south, I want to go home
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: