Luyện nghe bài hát Swanee River

(Old at Home)
Written by Stephen C.

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

All de am sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I
Oh, darkeys, how my heart weary,
Far from de old at home!

2nd

All round de little farm I
I was young,
Den many days I squandered,
de songs I sung.
When I was wid my brudder
was I;
Oh, me to my kind old mudder!
Dere let me and die.

3rd

One little hut de bushes,
One dat I
Still sadly to my rushes,
No where I rove.
When will I see de a-humming
All round de
When will I de banjo strumming,
in my good old home?

A little extra history of thay 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 White Springs honors Foster, who about 200 songs during his prolific career.

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

After Foster "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 into 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 song, replacing "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.