I've been away from you a long time

I never thought I'd miss you so

Somehow I feel

Your love is real

Near you I long to be

The birds are singing

It is song time

The banjos strumming soft and low

I know that you

Yearn for me too

Swanee you're calling me

Swanee

How I love you how I love you

My dear old Swanee

I'd give the world to be

Among the folks in

D-I-X-I-E - ven now my Mammy's waiting for me

Praying for me

Down by the Swanee

The folks up north will see me no more

When I go to the Swanee Shore

Swanee Swanee I'm coming back to Swanee

Mammy Mammy I love the old folks at home

Swanee

How I love you how I love you

My dear old Swanee

I'd give the world to be

Among the folks in

D-I-X-I-E - ven now my Mammy's waiting for me

Praying for me

Down by the Swanee

The folks up north will see me no more

When I go to the Swanee Shore