From The Ziegfeld Follies of 1922.
Words and music by Louis Breau and Nat Sanders.
Arranged by Chas. N. Grant.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- If you should stray far away from your homeland
You’ll miss the songs you love best
Then some refrain like a strain from your own land
Just makes you yearn, till you return
Chorus
Sing a song of dear old Swanee
Make me see that southern shore
Bring along a thought of Swanee
Take me back home once more
To the old plantation where the banjos play
Southern syncopation calls me there to stay
Sing a song of dear old Swanee
Bring the Swanee back to me
- Sometimes a strain will remain in your mem’ry
Played on the strings of your heart
Though far from home as you roam it is calling
You must obey, love shows the way
Sung here by Fred Feild: