Jerry Garcia & David Grisman - Sweet Sunny South lyrics

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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light<br />

To the sweet sunny south, take me home<br />

Where the mockingbirds sing me to rest every night<br />

Oh, why was I tempted to roam?<br />

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And I think with regret of the dear home I left<br />

Of the warm hearts that sheltered me there<br />

Of wife and of dear ones, of whom I'm bereft<br />

For the old place again do I sigh?<br />

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Take me back to the place where the orange trees grow<br />

To my plot in the evergreen shade<br />

Where the flowers from the river's green margins did grow<br />

And spread their sweet scent through the glade<br />

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Oh the path to our cottage, they say, has grown green<br />

And the place is quite lonely around<br />

I know that the smiles and the forms I have seen<br />

Now lie in the dark mossy ground<br />

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Take me back, let me see what is left that I knew<br />

Can it be that the old house is gone?<br />

Dear friends of my childhood indeed must be few<br />

And I must face death all alone<br />

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But yet I'll return to the place of my birth<br />

The children have played round the door<br />

Where they gathered wild blossoms that grow round the path<br />

They'll echo our footsteps no more<br />

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Take me back to the place where my little ones sleep<br />

Poor Massa lies buried close by<br />

By the graves of my loved ones, I long for to weep<br />

And among them to rest when I die<br />

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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light<br />

To the sweet sunny south, take me home<br />

Where the mockingbirds sing me to rest every night<br />

Oh, why was I tempted to roam?