I've been away from you along time
I never thought I'd miss 'ya so
Somehow I feel, your love is real
Near you I wanna be.

The Birds are singing it is songtime
The banjos [bad word] soft and low
I know that you yearn for me to swanee you're calling
me

Swanee! How I love you, how I love you 
My dear old swanee. 
I'd give the world to be among the folks in
D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for me,
praying for me down by the swanne. 
The folks up north will see me no more when I get to
that swanee shore

(he whistles like a bird) 

I love the old folks at home
Swanee - how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old swanee. I'd give the world to be among the

Folks in D-I-X-I-E-ven though my mammy's waiting for 
me, praying for me down by the swanee. 
The folks up north will see me no more when I get to
that swanee shore