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Thread #15100 Message #1130588
Posted By: Jim Dixon
06-Mar-04 - 07:16 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Darlin' Chloe
Subject: Lyr Add: IN THE OLD CAROLINA STATE
Uncle Dave Macon recorded a song called IN THE OLD CAROLINA STATE in 1926.
In the old Carolina state where the sweet magnolias bloom, There the picaninny darkies learn to hoe. There is one I long to see, she was always true to me, But I haven't seen her since we all were free.
Mid the cotton and corn [...] And together in the fields we used to go It's been twenty years or more, since I left the cabin door, So I'm going back to see my darling Clo.
CHORUS: Darling Clo, darling Clo, Your sweet face I soon shall see I know, Where the sunny southern breeze fans the old Palmetto trees, So I'm going back to see my darling Clo.
In that happy southern home, where the songs I loved to sing, And the mockingbird is singing all the day, She is waiting for her Joe, and I'm bound to see my Clo For I know her hair has almost turned to gray.
The plantation is no more, and the tall lilac is o'er For I she's creeping close to eighty-three, But she'll wait till I come back, by the coon and possum track, For I have not seen her since we all were free. CHORUS