I've been away from you a long time

I never thought I'd missed you so

Somehow I feel

You love is real

Near you I long towanna be

The birds are singin' it is song time

The banjos strummin' soft and low

I know that you

Yearn for me too

Swanee you're calling me

Swanee

How I love you how I love

My dear ol' swanee

I'd give the world to be

Among the folks in

My mammy's

Waiting for me

Praying for me

Down by the swanee

The folks up north will see me no more

When I go to the swanee shore

Bis chorus

Swanee swanee I am coming back to swanee

Mammy mammy I love the old folks at home

Bis