Stephen Collins Foster,
The Riverside song book — Swanee River
(1893)
“ Dere's wha' my heart is turn-ing eb - er, Dere's wha' de old folks stay. Still long-ing for de old plan-ta - tion. And for de old folks at home. Den man-y hap- py days I squan-der'd Man-y de songs I sung Oh! take me to my kind old mud-der, Dere let me live and die. ”
