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OLD FRIEND RIVER
Old friend river let me drift once more^
To my Mammie's cakin, long the Mississippi's shore Where the swaying willows sing a soothing lullaby To the darky chilluift/ 'neath a southern sky.
I can hear my Mammie's singing songs I used to know/ 'Bout the Swannee River and Ole Black Jo^,
I	can see the melons on the watermelon vine^
My poor heart keeps long\in ^for that^River home of mine.
Song Verse Marguerite Backman Bay Saint Louis, Miss