Luyện nghe bài hát Swanee River

(Old at Home)
by Stephen C. Foster

Way down de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away,
Dere's wha my heart is ebber,
wha de old folks 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 farm I wandered
I was young,
Den many days I squandered,
de songs I sung.
When I was wid my brudder
was I;
Oh, take me to my old mudder!
Dere let me and die.

3rd

One hut among de bushes,
One dat I
Still to my memory rushes,
No matter I rove.
When will I see de a-humming
All de comb?
will I hear de banjo strumming,
Down in my old home?

A little extra history of thay made the

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 honors Foster, who authored about 200 songs during his prolific career.

The Suwannee River flows from the Okeefenokee Swamp in Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico 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" 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 state 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 had been established.