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Swanee
03:55
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Way down upon the Swanee River,
Far, far away
That's where my heart is turning ever
That's where my old folks stay
All up and down the whole creation,
Sadly I roam
Still longing for that old sensation
And for my old folks home
All the world is sad and dreary, everywhere I roam
Oh, Lordy, how my heart grows weary,
far from my old folks' home
All 'round the little farm I wandered,
When I was young
Then many happy days I squandered,
Many the songs I sung
When I was playing with my brother,
Happy I was
Oh, take me to my kind old mother,
There let me live and die
One little hut among the bushes,
One that I love
Still sadly to my mem'ry rushes,
No matter where I rove
When shall I see the bees a humming,
All 'round the comb
When shall I hear the banjo strumming,
Down by my good old home
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Camptown
03:24
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The Camptown ladies sing this song
The Camptown racetrack's five miles long
The long tailed filly and the big black horse,
They come to a mud hole and we all cut loose
Goin' to run all night
Goin' to run all day
I bet my money on a bob-tailed nag
Somebody bet on the gray
I went down there and my hat caved in,
I came back home with a pocket of sin
The blind hoss sticken' in a big mud hole
We all touch bottom with an empty soul
Then it all flies along like a rail-road car
Running in our brains like a shooting star
See them flying on a ten mile heat
Go 'round and around, and we repeat
I win my money on the bob-tail nag
I keep my money in an old tow-bag
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Willie
04:38
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Oh! Willie, is it you, safe at home?
They did not tell me true,
They said you would not come.
I heard you at the gate,
And it made my heart rejoice;
For I knew that welcome footstep
That dear, familiar voice,
Making music on my ear
In the lonely midnight gloom:
Willie, we have missed you, dear
Welcome home! welcome home!
We've longed to see you nightly,
But this night of all;
The fire was blazing brightly
And lights were in the hall.
The little ones were up
Till 'twas ten o'-clock and past,
Their eyes began to sparkle,
They've gone to sleep at last;
But they listened for your voice
Till they thought you'd never come;
The days were sad without you,
The nights long and drear;
Our dreams have been about you;
Oh! welcome, Willie dear!
Last night I wept and watched
By the moonlight's cheerless ray,
Till I thought I heard your footstep,
Then I wiped my tears away;
But my heart grew sad again
When I found you had not come;
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Hard Times
03:16
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Let us pause in life's pleasures and count its many tears,
While we all sup sorrow with the poor;
There's a song that will linger forever in our ears;
Oh! Hard times, come again no more.
While we seek mirth and beauty and music light and gay,
There are frail forms fainting at the door;
Though their voices are silent, their pleading looks will say
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
'Tis the song, the sigh of the weary,
Oh Hard Times, hard times, come again no more
Many days you have lingered around my cabin door;
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
There's a pale drooping maiden who toils her life away,
With a worn heart whose better days are o'er:
Though her voice would be merry, 'tis shining all the day,
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
'Tis a sigh that is wafted across the troubled wave,
'Tis a wail that is heard upon the shore
'Tis a dirge that is murmured around the lowly grave
Oh! Hard times come again no more.
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Swanee River Ducky Tours Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Michael Savisky and Daniel Snoke first began playing together with the band, Colonizing the Cosmos. SRDT is a collaboration based around mutual fascination for old Stephen Foster folk songs, just retuned for a modern audience.
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