Here's a bit from Wikipedia about the origins of this, in a song by an American, Septimus Winner' called Ellie Rhee, or Carry me back to Tennessee, taken to South Africa by gold miners.

Sweet Ellie Rhee, so dear to me
Is lost forever more
Our home was down in Tennessee
Before this cruel war [6]
Then carry me back to Tennessee
Back where I long to be
Amid the fields of yellow corn
To my darling Ellie Rhee