OLD FOLKS AT HOME SWANEE RIVER Swanee Ribber Suwannee words lyrics STEPHEN FOSTER FLORIDA state song
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- "Old Folks at Home" (aka "Swanee River", "Swanee Ribber" or "Suwannee River") is a song written by Stephen Foster and has been the official state song of Florida.
Old Folks at Home words text Lyrics:
Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, River
Far, far away,
Dere's wha my heart is turning ebber,
Dere's wha de old folks stay.
All up and down de whole creation
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for de old plantation,
And for de old folks at home.
All de world is sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I roam;
Oh, brothers, how my heart grows weary,
Far from de old folks at home
2nd verse
All round de little farm I wandered
When I was young,
Den many happy days I squandered,
Many de songs I sung.
When I was playing wid my brudder
Happy was I;
Oh, take me to my kind old mudder!
Dere let me live and die.
All de world am sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I roam;
Oh, brothers, how my heart grows weary,
Far from de old folks at home
3rd Verse
One little hut among de bushes,
One dat I love
Still sadly to my memory rushes,
No matter where I rove.
When shall I see de bees a-humming
All round de comb?
When shall I hear de banjo strumming,
Down in my good old home?
All de world am sad and dreary,
Eb-rywhere I roam;
Oh, brothers, how my heart grows weary,
Far from de old folks at home
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When I was a kid, I learnt to play this on the the piano, lovely memories.
Thanks. Same here
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@Dean Darwin i use flixzone. You can find it by googling =)
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Thanks, it was a lovely song while I was in Primary school. Very playful days catching spiders, pray for world peace. God bless all . Amen
Thanks 🙏❤️
My first-grade teacher, Mrs. Youngberg of Osborne Elementary School, taught us this sweet old song by Steven Foster, in 1951. 71 years later I am still remembering the chorus. So nice!
Wonderful! Thanks
I love old songs, it's like storytelling and it's so pure❤ unlike music nowadays..😔
Yes
This was a song written for a blackface performance written to make fun of black people. Maybe find better memories
Thanks
In my country in Indonesia, this song has become a Church song. Especially for us Papuan/Melanesian. Almost every Folk songs of America and Europe has become Church songs that included in the Bible. They used the same Rhythm so whenever you heard some Old American Folk songs you would know that they are not playing Folk song, they are playing Gospel song. But, still not everything are included of course, not including "Oh, Suzanna" or any Children songs though😆
This song has its own Native version too aside from Indonesian. I grew up with this song. My Pa loved to play this in the morning on the speaker whenever I preparing to go to School. We were so poor so that's the only song we had. Sorry for Bad English😁
Thanks. You’re English was good!
Very surprising!
Thank you for your comment, so informative.
And congrats for your English, speaking a foreign language is much more difficult than what english speakers think (even when using a translator, like I do sometimes, to make translations faster and don't get headaches remembering rarely used words! xD ).
I am in Florida cause I was born in Florida so I live in Florida and yet I still listen to this
lol thanks
I was born in Florida still live in Florida 😁
@@that1idiot535were you born in Florida and still live in Florida?
I learnt this song when I was in 3rd class 1965. Good old days 😌 golden memories.
Yes thanks
My Grandpa used to love the Suwanee river. I really miss him.
I bet-thanks
I'm korean student who learned this at school, I just learned song translated korean.
But original version is also good!
Thank you!
Approaching 30, remembered this song from my childhood. Once a beaconite, always a beaconite!
Beaconite?
Thanks for the lovely song😊.
This song remains a favourite classic in surprising , far flung corners of the world.
Mind you, the word "plantation" does not carry any negative connotations elsewhere the way it does in the US. Many agricultural crops are grown in plantations all over the world.
Thanks for the positive comments and information !
What does it matter that plantations exist in other places if what it meant in the song had everything to do with chattel slavery? I do not for the life of me understand how a minstrel song can be "lovely" while it exists to make fun of slaves longing for their masters.
Florida, my home!
Excellent video ! Thank you very much !
You’re very welcome and thanks for your comment! (not everyone comments kindly about this video)
I learned this song in my school chorus
awesome performance of our Florida State song.........Charles..thank you
You’re welcome!
جيت من ديوان بدر شاكر السياب❤
حبذا نهر به غنيتِ يهتاج ادكاري
ياسواني آه لو أنّا جُمِعنا في جوارِ
English?❤️
i am a pianist and i love Stephen Foster!
❤️
the singer did a fine job. he knows how to deliver a song.
Thanks
Beautiful song, thanks so much
Thanks!
I finally found you!!! After years of searching it was all worth it. Beautiful song...
Thanks Eduardo- from Youngstown?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD I don't remember where I heard this song, but thank you for uploading it, Now that I found it and this is the best version.
Thank you Eduardo. Please subscribe
Your voice is superb ! So well suited to this material
Oh thanks!
The anthem for Florida
Yes thanks
N composed by Ed Norton lol
❤ very nice song
Thanks!❤️
When I was in grade school in Chicago, we had a teacher who was from the South. She made us memorize this song, plus “Dixie”.
Not in today’s time- they’d be fired!
Old memories whenever I hear this song
Thanks
This song could make me cry
cherry Rose Thanks
Thats Southern Pride....and thats all comes out.
I love this song very very much and I hope you can make more songs like this please
Thanks! I will
It's our bus driver from Brooklyn..Ralph Kramden!!
lol- I actually am a bus driver!
first time i know this song it was something like 30 years ago when i was in primary school.
learnt play it on harmonica.
When I was a kid, I knew about that song from the PBS Kids show Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse.
? Interesting, I never heard of that show. When were you a kid?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD I was a kid back in the early 2000s. Marvin the Tap Dancing Horse used to be on PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch. It only ran for two seasons. Out of 52 half segments, two of the half episodes had one of the characters singing “Old Folks at Home”.
I really love old songs cause it's inspiring you to make more music
True- do you write songs Kate?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD sorry no but I always thought that singers always had an inspiration to make the song
@@katealontaga9148 yes- thanks Kati
A great Song!
Thanks!
great old americana should still played in public schools thank you sah.
I agree. Thanks
I agree. Thanks!
Davy Jones sang this on "The Case of the Missing Monkee" epsode :(
RIP DAVY
I didn't know- Thanks! I really liked his voice- too bad he died so young
Doesnt need to be "official" to carry its significance. This Florida man been roving, just rediscovered our song. Tell you what my fellow Florida folk, i miss all y'all. However, ill soon be home on my beloved Gulf Coast soon nuff. Remember its the South and Florida.
Welcome back. I’m in Daytona right now
I Live in Keaton beach Florida and am on the Suwannee river every weekend 😂 living the dream
Mother Cecil,my canadian song teacher taught us this song..............in the 60s
nice
Did you also learn where the Swanee River is
That'saWrap Studios I had to look it up
I don't know where I heard this but it's such a big memory
School? Old cartoons or movies?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD no I live in Turkey and this song is not popular here at all. But I had a yamaha org once, maybe this was a track in it 🤷♀️😂
Oh yes. I have a Yamaha keyboard and it’s on there
@@CharlesSzaboPhD oh really? I finally found out where I remember it from, thank you! 😂
'Oh brother!!!' 👍
On I 75 south & saw the sign so decided to Google then CZcams Suwannee river song 🎵🎶🎵
Have a safe trip!
Foster also wrote the Kentucky state song, but the lyrics have changed several times. This song almost becae the Florida state song
I think it is or was the Florida’s state song up until recently. Florida might have two state songs, this one and a newer less offensive one
Never knew the whole song. Thanks.
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Nice song
Thanks
I was searching for Suwannee River lyrics and selected this channel from what popped up, and so happy I did. Many uploads yet to be enjoyed, so I subscribed as not to miss out on anything in the future. Thank you Mr Szabo!!🤩
You’re very welcome. On this channel I upload one song per month but on my other channel I upload at least one song per day. You are welcome to join there too.
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@@CharlesSzaboPhD Ty, I'll check it out!
@@phuchyouh7171 thanks!
Sadly, you really don't 'get' these Songs of Love and Loss and Death. You have a pleasant light Voice but a superficial 'Pop' Style.
This is a Man who has left Home for whatever reason - and Time has passed, he can't go back...He doesn't belong ANYWHERE, he's a lonely Wanderer.
These Songs are poignant. They are full of Sadness, Loss, Death, Displacement.
Not just pretty Tunes.
I do get these songs Suzanne however, please see my reply to you on Old Black Joe-
This song is from a minstrel show and was written to make fun of Black slaves "longing" for their masters. It is only a poignant reminder of the casual and callous way that Black people were treated
When I hear this I think .. Man idk would miss the plantations.. I’m pretty sure a former slave won’t .
Grazie mille!!! Canzone bellissima e cantate bene... Thanks for emotion
Biagio Indino thanks for your comments!
Composer: Edward Norton from Bensenhurst, New York, New York.
Alex Fromnic what about him?
Lol I was waiting for this comment
😆😆😆
The only reason THEY removed it FROM being Florida State anthem was the word plantation....aint that sad
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There were sadder derogatory lyrics originally. They replaced one particular word with 'brother'
will and the song was written as a minstrel song so that's most likely why it got removed just like turkey in the straw
Where was turkey... removed from?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD it was one the many songs ice cream trucks played but they stopped playing it because of it's racist history
It is like my name.
Yes!
Here in Brazil we have an evangelical version of this song called "O Exilado" (The Exile)
Nice. Do you have the words?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD The Exile
I'm far away from my beautiful homeland
I'm tired
I miss Jesus
Oh, when will I go?
Little birds, beautiful flowers
They want to enchant me
They are earthly splendors
But contemplate my home
Jesus gave me His promise
Come get me
My heart is in a hurry
I want to fly now
My sins were many
I'm very worried
But His blood makes me clean
I'm going to my homeland
Which son of your home misses
I wanna go
Which bird for the nest
To run away into your arms
He is faithful, His coming is certain
When? I don't know
But He tells you to be alert
From exile I will return
I await your coming, singing
My home in heaven
I will hear your footsteps sounding
Beyond the hidden dark
Little birds, beautiful flowers
They want to enchant me
They are earthly splendors
But contemplate my home
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Thanks. It’s beautiful!❤️
good luck charile 😢
Thanks
Ole Suzanna,Kemp Town Races,STEPHAN STINKIN' FOSTER!
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@@CharlesSzaboPhD it's from the movie Tombstone. Great flick and great reinvention of this song,coming from a Florida native.
Thanks Josh- I’ll have to check that out
You may be the fastest responder I've ever met on CZcams. You're the Doc Holliday of youtube. It's high praise. Remember that if you watch Tombstone...
lol. Ok Josh Thanks
Game show host: "Who's the composer of this song?" Ralph Kramden: "Ed Norton?" 😆😆😆😆
im watching this for school
I learned these songs in my music lessons at the age of 8 - - a long long time ago.
Nash Samla great! For music class?
E Whitcher me too! Thanks
I m Croatian and my teacher always plays this song on piano and we sing.
Slavko Rajic oh cool
Im from swaunee county raised and proud
Love that! Florida I assume?
"To the Gothic Castle."
"The Gothic Arsehole?"
"That's what I said."
What’s that from?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD Arrested Development.
@@heatherperleberg7816 ty
Im in Florida for VK!
VK?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD yes. Vacation.
VK= Vacation! makes sense. Have a great time. We’re currently dodging tornados!
@@CharlesSzaboPhD that’s not good. Hope you survive!
Thanks- all calm now
Born and raised in Suwanee County
Cool. Is this song liked or disliked there?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD nobody really cares about it. People are pretty bland and basic in their music taste
Thanks
🤗😍🥰😍🥰😍🤗
Thanks
@@CharlesSzaboPhD no, no, thank you, really. So great. :)
When was it released and who is the original singer?
1850’s. Before recordings so no one actually
It was commissioned in 1851 by E. P. Christy for use by Christy's Minstrels, his minstrel troupe, before sound recording.
A decent early recorded version (in spite of the static) is this 1915 version by Alma Gluck:
czcams.com/video/zGpuqnxg9sM/video.html
Is this the song that gave rise to the expression "Up the Swanee" (i.e. in an awkward predicament, difficult situation, or irreversible scenario)?
Maybe but I never heard that expression before
can someone help me with the musical score of this beautiful piece?
You want the piano vocal music?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD I want it in the soprano, alto, tenor and bass.
I would like to teach my musical group here in Ghana.
Thanks.
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@@CharlesSzaboPhD thanks very much. i would upload it when we are done learning it.
I would Love to hear it!
My state’s song UwU
Thanks but what does UwU mean?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD the furry term means, "unhappy without you" but some people use it to show emotion like, :) or :D.
GL1TCH uwu thanks!
Mine too!
This ones funny from the singing fish in george lopez
Ed Norton wrote this
Really?
Hi
Thanks
EASEMENT!!
EASEMENT?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD in the Simpsons episode when Marge was getting her real estate license, she hummed this song during the exam and shouted easement. 😂
@@Donkey_Lips lol thanks
Finally a clean version.
Thanks. I teach school so...
What
@@homestuckbutters3223
Wikipedia page with original and revised lyrics:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Folks_at_Home
@@ZenFox0it has the same words just the spelling is better
Thanks
Ed Norton ?
Did he sing this?
longing for the old plantation? what’s that supposed to mean?
THAT'S SUWANEE RIVER!!??!?!
Yep-why?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD its a Honeymooners joke.
Oh! Thanks
Composer: Edward Norton
As a non-American (I'm Brazilian), I sincerely don't understand what does this song has to do with racism... I ask this because 1951 cartoon Droopy's Good Deed by Tex Avery has one censored scene in which Spike gets all blackened because he was struck by a lightning bolt and a piece of this song's instrumental plays at the background. I wish I could understand it more correctly...
Because white entertainers back in the mid 1800’s used to paint their faces black and imitate black people while singing songs such as this. It was wasn’t very flattering. It was called Black Face entertainment.
@@CharlesSzaboPhD, oh my... didn't ever imagine such thing used to happen back there. Thank you for the explanation!
Yes. and worse- the whole slavery thing too
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If you know what I'm talking about, like ;)
Is this song on the built in demo or tutor feature?
Ed Norton wrote that song
Who’s that?
If your last name is Foster, then that proves you're related to the person who wrote this song, and likewise, one of the members of Foster the People.
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@@CharlesSzaboPhD Do you believe in God's creation in which all people are related, or do you believe in D.N.A. that strongly suggests that Native Americans and Orientals came from the same origin? Actually, D.N.A. never proved anything. It's only 99.999999 per cent accurate.
Both
These are Not the lyrics Stephen Foster wrote!
Pretty close. Slight changes to make it more pc
Lagu DOREMI daaa.... Masdo,Amore & Minami
English?Thanks
Celah mana yg sama dengan lagu pi ramlee?
English? Thanks
Mari jadi tentera laut
Jerung aku takut
Mari jadi tentera udara
Tinggi sangat aku x nak
Thanks but English?
Who is singing
Me. Why?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD Hi, there, you did a good job of singing that song, Sir.
Thanks!
Who's singing this?
Me- Charles Szabo. Why?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD I was just curious. Also, you're a really good singer.
@@phampletyt6808 Thanks Ian!
Oh you it was a beutiful song ㅓ노ㅕㅠㅈ
Thanks
스와니강 민요 입니다
Thanks
I'm here because of the anime
R Ancog which anime?
@@CharlesSzaboPhD Kaze no Naka no Shoujo
R Ancog thanks
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Nice. Thanks
Bubba home
What?
Charles Szabo in the book Forrest Gump, Bubba asks him to play this song on his harmonica, and as he’s dying, his last word is “home”
Thanks!!!!
스와니강
Thanks 🙏❤️
why u spelling everything like that
That was how the song was written in 18XX. The PC police have edited Mr. Foster's song, the line was not "Oh BROTHER how my heart groes weary."
Stephen Foster was a white man writing a song that a black man would have sung.
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Why change the lyrics.just don’t play it if you got to change it
I wanted more people to be able to enjoy the song without anyone being offended
Because it doesn't change the sentiment of the song at all, unless of course you're a racist, and then it completely ruins the song.
Thanks Alpha
May as well erase history if you have to change it or put ice cream on it so people will like it...smh!
My names ned
Hi Ned
Top of the morning to you
In the video
Hi Mr Charles! Thanks for replying! My 12yo nephew was the one who sent you messages and i just found this out... he is memorizing your song as required for his class performance task... Godspeed!
Thanks
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Bit too upbeat for my taste this version.
Understood. Thanks
I liked the original. They will rewrite "Mary had a little lamb" next claiming it's racist.
Yes - unfortunately. Thanks
Composed by Edward Norton 😂😂😂
lol
Plantation? What.
j2m7l1m1 16 ?
? Plantation ..where the evil slavers made the slaves work..you know!
This song was made in the 1800s, the fact that it mentions plantations shouldn't be a particular surprise.
Seriously
Not the original. These are not Foster's lyrics.
Yes but with a few changes to make them acceptable in today’s society
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Thumbs down.... if you are gonna change the original lyrics then don't do the song
I hear you but I’m trying to make the songs available to a wider audience
Was he ghetto because he sings mudder instead of mother?