Stephen Collins Foster piosenki

1. My mother and my home, Ah! what pleasant words to me, They light up on my drooping where-ever I may be, And the joys of other days o'er my senses gently glide, While lonely I struggle with worlds busy tide, While I rest from my toils at the close of day, An...

1. A penny for your thoughts! For I know that your are dreaming: Love's little, wicked darts are sporting with your brain; A penny for your thought! Thro' those eyes your heart is gleaming, Longing to welcome back the starry night again. O'er meadows, thro' th...

1. Far from my childhood's scenes, with weary steps I roam; Laden with weight of care, a thousand miles from home; Old them return to me, Days of pleasure[,] nights of glee; While I'm beyond the sea a thousand miles from home. A thousand miles from home. Oh!...

1. Ah! may the red rose live alway, To smile upon earth and sky! Why should the beautiful ever weep? Why should the beautiful die? Lending a charm to ev'ry ray That falls on her cheeks of light, Giving the zephyr kiss for kiss, And nursing the dewdrop bright -...

Ah! my child! Ah! my child! For thy poor mother Didst thou then smother All thy sweet dreams, all thy sweet dreams of Bertha' love? Ah! my child! Ah! my child! Thou hast, alas! cast away, for thy mother, e'en more that life, all the hopes that had warmed thy y...

1. Way down on de old plantation -- Dah's where I was born, I used to beat de whole creation Hoein' in de corn: Oh! den I work and den I sing So happy all de day, Till Angelina Baker came And stole my heart away. CHORUS Angelina Baker! Angelina Baker's gone -...

1. There's a wound in my spirit, No halm can o'er heal; In my soul is a sorrow, No voice can reveal. And deeper the furrows Will sink on my brow, For Annie, my own love, Is gone from me now, For Annie, my own love, Is gone from my now. 2. Like the moon to th...

1. We'll put for de souf Ah! dat's the place, For the steeple chase and de bully hoss race -- Poker, brag, eucher, seven up and loo, Den chime in Niggas, wont you come along too. CHORUS No use talkin when de Nigga wants to go, Whar de corntop blossom and de c...

1. Come, I am longing to hear thee, Beautiful child of song, Come though the hearts that are near thee, Around thee devotedly throng. Come, I am longing to hear thee, Beautiful child of song. Beautiful child of song, I'm longing to hear thee carol thy lay, s...

1. Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee; Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, Lull'd by the moonlight have all pass'd away! Beautiful dreamer, queen of my song, List while I woo thee with soft melody; Gone are the...

1. There are voices of hope that are borne on the air, And our land will be freed from its clouds of despair, For brave men and true men to battle have gone, And good times, good times are now coming on. CHORUS Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! |: Sound the news from t...

1. Bring my brother back to me, When this war is done, Give us all the joys we shar'd Ere it had begun O bring my brother back to me, Never more to stray. This is all my earnest prayer, Thro' the weary day. CHORUS Bring him back! bring him back! With his smil...

1. Lay me down where the grass is green, mother, Beneath the willow shade, Where the murmuring winds will mourne, mother, The wreck that death has made. CHORUS Bury me in the morning, And mourn not at my loss, For I'll join the beautiful army That carried the...

1. Come where my lies dreaming, Dreaming the happy hours away, In visions bright redeeming The fleeting joys of day; Dreaming the happy hours away, (Dreaming,) Come where my lies dreaming, (My own love is sweetly) Dreaming the happy hours away. Come where my l...

1. Come with thy sweet voice again, To my heart still dear, Laden with soft, soothing pain, Like a tear, like a tear, Bright visions, long vanished, Round thy melodies beam: Lulled in the lap of thy sighs, Let me dream, let me dream, Come again! Come with thy...

1. Oh! comrades, fill no glass for me To drown my soul in liquid flame, For if I drank, the toast should be -- To blighted fortune, health and fame. Yet, though I long to quell the strife, That passion holds against my life, Still, boon companions may ye be, B...

1. Near the broad Atlantic waters Roaming the woodlands green 'Mid Long Island's lovely daughters Fairesat of all was Cora Dean Soft her voice as liquid measure Heard when the streamlets move While her eyes of tender azure Glowed with the winning beams of love...

1. Oh! ladies dont you wonder When I again appear: I've just been ober yonder To see my Dolcy dear; For Dolcy steps so lighly Among de bricks and stones, Her eyes dey shine so brightly Oh! dadda, D' D' Dolcy Jones! CHORUS Bye, bye, my darling! Sleep to de rat...

1. I've told you 'bout de banjo, De fiddle and de bow, Likewise about de cottenfield, De shubble and de hoe; I've sung about de bulgine Dat blew de folks away, And now I'll sing a little song About my Dolly Day. CHORUS Oh Dolly Day looks so gay, I run all rou...

1. De Shanghai chicken, when you put him in de pit, He'll eat a loaf of bread up, but he can't fight a bit; De Shaghai fiddle is a funny little thing, And ebry time you tune him up he goes ching, ching. CHORUS Oh! de Shaghai! Don't bet your money on de Shangh...