Swanee (Alternate Version)

I've been away from you a long time

I never thought I'd missed you so

Somehow I feel  you love is real

Near you I long to wanna be

The birds are singin'  it is song time

The banjos strummin' soft and low

I know that you  yearn for me too

Swanee  you're calling me

Swanee  how I love you  how I love
My dear ol' Swanee

I'd give the world just  to be among the folks in

D-I-X-I-E even 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 am coming back to Swanee

Mammy  mammy

I love the old folks at home

Swanee  how I love you  how I love

My dear ol' Swanee

The folks up north will see me no more

When I go to the Swanee shore