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IN DEAR OLD GEORGIA

Whenever the sun begins to shed its golden hue,
When birds begin to cease their songs of joy.
When roses droop their sleepy heads in meadows wet with dew
I dream of days when I was but a boy.

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In dear old Georgia, my Dixie land
It was there I met her and won her hand,
Among the pine trees I long to roam
In dear old Georgia my Southern home.

Remember how I swung you but the highest bough you'd miss
Although your best to reach it you would try.
Remember when the rope it broke and I gave you a kiss
That scared away the tear drop in your eye.

Though that was years ago, dear, yet something seems to say
When dreams of you and home I oft recall,
If I had stayed in Georgia, Nell, I might have felt today
That life was worth the living after all.

Harry Williams and Robert Van Alstyne, 1905