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Artist: Jackie Wilson
Canonical path: /jackie-wilson/swanee
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Swanee
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Swanee
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I've been away from you a long time.
I never thought I'd miss you so.
Somehow I feel, your love was real,
Near you I long to be.
The birds are singing, it is song time.
The banjo's strummin' soft and low.
I know that you yearn for me too,
Swanee you're calling me.
Swanee how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee
I'd give the world to be
Among the folks in d-I-x-I even know my
Mammy's waitin' for me prayin' for me
Down by the swanee
The folks up north will see me no more
When I go to the swanee shore.
Swanee, swanee I am coming back to swanee.
Mammy, mammy, I love the old folks at home.
Swanee how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee
I'd give the world to be among the folks in
D-I-x-I even know my mammy's waitin' for me prayin' for me
Down by the swanee
The folks up north will see me no more
When I go to the swanee shore.
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Jackie Wilson performs "Swanee", and this lyric page sits inside the Jackie Wilson catalog on LyroVerse.
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