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The Sweet South
Traditional
Music:

This was played a few times by Jerry with David Grisman in 1990-92 and long before with the Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers in 1962. The lyrics for the two versions are almost identical (thanks to Matt Schofield for checking the 1962 version)

Take me to the place where I first saw the light
To the sweet sunny take me home
Where the mockingbirds sing me to rest every
Oh, why was I tempted to

I with regret of the dear home I left
Of the hearts that sheltered me there
Of wife and of ones of whom I'm bereft
For the old again do I sigh

Take me to the place where the orange trees grow
To my in the evergreen shade
Where the from the river's green margins did grow (note 1)
And spread their sweet through the glade

Oh the path to our cottage say has grown green (note 2)
And the is quite lonely around
I know that the smiles and the I have seen
Now lie in the dark ground

Take me back, let me see what is that I knew
Can it be that the old is gone?
friends of my childhood indeed must be few
And I must face all alone

But yet return to the place of my birth
Where the have played round the door
Where they gathered wild blossoms that grow round the
They'll our footsteps no more

me back to the place where my little ones sleep
Poor lies buried close by
By the graves of my ones, I long for to weep
And among them to when I die

Take me back to the place where I saw the light
To the sweet sunny south take me
Where the mockingbirds sing me to rest every
Oh, why was I tempted to