Luyện nghe bài hát Swanee River

(Old at Home)
Written by C. Foster

Way down de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere's wha my is turning ebber,
wha de old folks stay.
All up and down de whole
I roam,
Still for de old plantation,
And for de old at home.

All de am sad and dreary,
I roam;
Oh, darkeys, how my heart weary,
Far de old folks at home!

2nd

All de little farm I wandered
I was young,
Den many happy I squandered,
de songs I sung.
When I was playing wid my
was I;
Oh, take me to my old mudder!
let me live and die.

3rd

One hut among de bushes,
One dat I
Still sadly to my rushes,
No matter I rove.
When will I see de bees
All de comb?
When will I hear de strumming,
Down in my good old

A little extra history of made the song

Stephen C. Foster, one of America's Best-loved musical storytellers, wrote "The Swanee River (Old Folks at Home)" in 1851. A memorial center at Springs honors Foster, who authored about 200 songs during his prolific career.

The Suwannee River flows southerly from the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia to the Gulf of in Florida, topographically slicing the Florida panhandle from the rest of the state.

After Foster wrote "The Swanee River" in 1851, he sold it to famed minstrelman E. P. Christy. Foster is reported to have chosen the "Swanee" because its two-syllable cadence fit nicely the music he had composed. It could not have been due to a familiarity with the river's Florida section, since Foster never visited the state.

Through House Concurrent Resolution No. 22 in 1935, S. P. Robineau of Miami successfully entered "The Swanee River" as the official state song, "Florida, My Florida," which had been adopted as the State Song in 1913. By 1935 Foster's rightful position as a writer and composer had been established.