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Thread #32054   Message #419344
Posted By: GUEST,Gene
16-Mar-01 - 03:49 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Sweet Lorena (?)
Subject: Lyr Add: ON THE OL' PLANTATION (from Blue Sky Boys
Tho a version has been posted, I will post this one...
Transcribed from Blue Sky Boys recording...

The song has been recorded under SEVERAL different titles
No More The Moon Shines On Lorena
Lorena, The Slave Girl
On The Ol' Plantation

ON THE OL' PLANTATION
THE BLUE SKY BOYS

Away down upon the Ol' Plantation
Where Master owned me as a slave
He had a yellow [yella] girl named Lorena
And we courted where the wild bananas wave.

For many long years we had courted
Then our lives became as one
I worked hard to support my old master
For the happiness of life had just begun.

One day Master sold my Lorena
And I thought this poor Darkie's heart would break
For they took her away to Alabama
And they left me to mourn on her fate.

CHORUS
No more the Moon shines on Lorena
As we watched the Coons among the corn
And The Possums ate on the wild Bananas
And the Hoot Owls hooted like a Horn.

For seven long years I prayed to see her
For the thought of her was ever in my head
Then one day master read me a letter
Telling me my Lorena was dead.

Oh! they say that her spirit is in heaven
Where the darkies are free from all pain
That to her a bright crown has been given
And no more will she wear the Darkies chain.

CHORUS