Oh! Boys, Carry Me 'Long

This song is based upon one of the hymns that Stephen C. Foster heard while attending a small black church in his childhood. Background music is in the key of G

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Oh! car-ry me 'long;

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Der's no more trou-ble for me;

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I's guine to roam in  a hap-py home

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where all de dark-eys am free.

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I've worked long in de fields;

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I've han-dled ma-ny a hoe:

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I'll turn my eye, Be-fore I die,

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And see de su-gar cane grow.

chorus

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Oh! boys car-ry me 'long;

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Car-ry me till I die

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Car-ry me down to de bur-y-in' groun'.

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Mas-sa, don't you cry.

verse 2
All ober de land I'vewandered many a day,
To blow de horn and mind de corn
And keep de possom away.
No use for me now, So dark-eys, bury me low:
My horn is dry, And I must lie
Wha do possum nebber can go.