Sweet Sunny South
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Sweet Sunny South – Source MP3 – Alice Gerrard and Mike Seeger are singing, Mike on banjo and Tommy Jarrell on fiddle – from their album Bowling Green. KEY OF A: Fiddle tuned to AEAE, Banjo tuned to aEAC#E.
BAND • FIDDLE • GUITAR • BANJO • SINGING AND LYRICS • COMMENTS
Band
Band – Slow
Fiddle – Basic
Fiddle – Rhythm Variation
Fiddle – Left Hand Close-Up
Guitar
Banjo
SWEET SUNNY SOUTH
Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
To the sweet sunny south take me home
Where the mockingbirds sing me to sleep ev’ry night
Oh, why was I tempted to roam
I think with regret of the dear home I left
Of the warm hearts that sheltered me there
Of the wife and the dear ones of whom I’m bereft
For the old place again do I sigh
Take me home to the place where the orange trees grow
To my cot’ in the evergreen shade
Where the flowers from the river’s green margin did grow
They are sweet on the banks where we played
The path to our cottage they say has grown green
And the place is quite lonely around
And I know that the smiles and the forms I have seen
Now lie ‘neath the dark mossy ground
But yet I’ll return to the place of my birth
Where the children have played ’round the door
Where they gathered wild blossoms that grow around the bank
They will echo our footsteps no more
Take me home, let me see what is left that I knew
Can it be that the old house is gone?
Dear friends of my childhood indeed must be few
And now I must face death all alone
Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
To the sweet sunny south take me home
Where the mockingbirds sing me to sleep ev’ry night
Oh, why was I tempted to roam