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The Sweet Sunny
Traditional
Music:

This was played a few times by Jerry with David Grisman in and long before that 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 back to the place where I first saw the
To the sunny south take me home
the mockingbirds sing me to rest every night
Oh, why was I to roam?

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

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

Oh the to our cottage they say has grown green (note 2)
And the place is 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 left that I
Can it be that the old is gone?
Dear friends of my childhood must be few
And I must face death all

But yet I'll return to the place of my
Where the children have played the door
Where they gathered blossoms that grow round the path
They'll echo our footsteps no

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

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