Key: Gb major
Verse 1
F#m
F#
F#m
I love the coolness of the water
C#
F#
C#
B
I love the softness
C#
F#
of the shore
Bm
F#m
F#
Someday I know
B
F#m
F#
F#m
That I will go homeward,
B
C#
that's where I'll be.
F#
C#
The fish are jumping from the river,
F#
C#
F#
The birds are graceful as they soar and soar,
F#
C#
B
C#
F#
River, you're calling me to Swanee,
how I love ya, how I love ya,
B
F#
my dear old Swanee
F#m
G#m
I'd give the world to be
C#
G#
C#
F#
among the folks in D -I -X -I
Even now my mammy's waitin' for me,
B
F#
prayin' for me down by the Swanee
A#
F#
G#
The folks up north will see me no more.
B
C#
When I go to the swan -east,
swan -east shore,
long time.
C#
F#
I never thought I'd miss you so.
F#
B
C#
Near you I long to love to be.
F#
F#
The banjo's strumming soft and low.
B
C#
I know that you yearn for me too, Swanee,
D#m
B
I hear ya callin' me,
E#m
C#
D#m
C#
G#
C#
F#
E
I hear ya!
C#
E#m
B
C#
B
C#
Swanee, how I love ya, how I love ya,
F#
C#
My dear old Swanee,
F#
C#
F#
I give the world to be
D#m
F#
amon g the folks way
G#
C#
back in D .I .X.
G#
C#
F#
I even know my mammy's
waiting for me,
praying for me
B
F#
Down by the Suwannee,
C#
C#m
F#
When I go to the Suwannee shore
D#
B
Now I'm gonna go right
F#
B
Suwannee shore
F#
B
I'll live no more,
D#dim
B
Bm
F#
my mammy and my Suwannee shore
D#dim
B
Bm
By Swanee's
F#
Shore
F#
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