Sweet Sunny South
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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light
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To my sweet sunny south take me home
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Where the wild birds sing me to sleep every night
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O why was I tempted to roam?
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O the path to our cabin they say has grown green
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And the stones are all mossy & brown
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And I know all the faces and forms that I love
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Now lie in the cold muddy ground
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Take me back to the place where I first saw the light......
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Take me back to the place where the orange trees grow
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To my place in the evergreen shade
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Where the flowers on the river's green margins do grow
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And spread their sweet scent with the glade _____________________________________G D
Take me back to the place where I first saw the light......
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I know I'll return to the place of my birth
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Though the children have left by the score
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All the friends and the loved ones who lived from the earth
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Their silence will echo no more.