====== #1124 - Sunny Tennessee ======
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  *Composer:
    *++Stanley Carter|{{search>"Stanley Carter" @cobs}}++, 1899
  *Also known as:
    *The Girl I Loved in Sunny Tennessee
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  *[[:incipit]]: 5133343213176
  *[[:incipit|Condensed Incipit]]: 51343213176
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  *++Lyrics:|\\
On one morning bright and clear,\\
To my old home I drew near,\\
Just a village down in sunny Tennessee;\\
I was speeding on a train,\\
That would carry me back again,\\
To my sweetheart who was waiting there for me.\\
It was but a few short years\\
Since I kiss'd away her tears,\\
As I left her at my dear old mother's side;\\
And each day we've been apart\\
She's grown nearer to my heart,\\
Than the night I asked of her to be my bride.\\
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We could hear the d---ies singing\\
As she said farewell to me,\\
Far across the fields of cotton,\\
My old homestead I could see;\\
When the moon rose in the glory,\\
Then I told life's sweetest story\\
To the girl I loved in sunny Tennessee.\\
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As the train drew up at last,\\
Old familiar scenes I pass'd,\\
And I kissed my mother at the station door;\\
But as old friends gathered 'round,\\
Tears on ev'ry face I found,\\
And I missed the one that I'd been waiting for.\\
As I whispered "Mother dear,\\
Where is Mary? She's not here!"\\
All the world seem'd lost and sadness came to me;\\
For she pointed to a spot\\
In the little churchyard lot\\
Where my sweetheart sleeps in sunny Tennessee.\\
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A copy of 1899 sheet music for the song is held in the University of Maine Vocal Popular Sheet Music Collection and may be viewed online at digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu\\
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    *++Harry Braisted|{{search>"Harry Braisted" @cobs}}++, 1899
  *See also:
    *[[..:1267:]]