Down yonder someone beckons to me
Down yonder someone reckons on me
I seem to see a race in my memory
between the boats the Nachez and the Robert E. Lee
Oh my Swanee shore, I miss you more and more
Everyday mammy land, you are simply grand
Down yonder when the folks get the news
Down yonder at the hullabaloo
There's Effram and Sammy, Pappy and mammy,
Waitin' down yonder for me.