Here's just an old time story
One that you've heard before
I left my mammy's fine caress
To search the world for happiness
The things  I left behind me
Were the things I sought in vain
Feelin blue, weary too
I'm going home again
Yes sir
I'm goin South
Taste the sugar cane right in my mouth
Everything  is sweeter way down South
Where I spent my happy days
I hear the rustling corn
Birdies singing in the early morn
In the little town where I was born
Down in Alabamy way
I jump  and picture black Joe
With his old banjo
He's  strumming a tune
That old quartet  I can hear them yet
Singing "By The Silvery Moon"
They've got sink a pack
Still out there by  the little shack
There's nobody gona hold me back
I'm going South
Yes sir, yes sir
South, South, that's where I'm going
Taste  the sugar cane  right  in my mouth
Everything is sweeter when I'm South
Where I spent my  happy days
I hear the rusting  corn
And the  little birdies singing in the early morn
In the little town where I was born
Down in Alabamy, down in Alabamy way
Oh listen, can't you hear black Joe
Come  on  Joe  play me that tune
There's my mammy old  and gray
She  singing "On A Silvery Moon"
Look, look, look people
I ain't got nothin to pack
I  don't even own the clothes on my back
But mammy  I'm coming back
I'm a going South