Dear Old Southland

• Louis Armstrong recorded the song on April 5, 1930, for Okeh Records (catalog No. 41454). Armstrong recorded the song again in 1956 for the album Satchmo: A Musical Autobiography. • Duke Ellington and His Orchestra – December 4, 1933 for Victor Records (catalog No. 24501). • Benny Goodman and His Orchestra – June 25, 1935 for Victor Records (catalog No. 25136). • Paul Robeson – September 26, 1939 for Victor Records (catalog No. 26741). • Sidney Bechet's Blue Note Quartet – March 27, 1940 for the Blue Note label (catalog No. 13). • Al Hirt released a version on his 1963 album, Our Man in New Orleans. • Allen Toussaint released his own arrangement of Dear Old Southland (credited under Raymond Bloch), as a duet between a dominant piano part and a lamenting trumpet part (played by Nickholas Payton), on his jazz album of 2009 The Bright Mississippi. ==Lyrics==

The lyrics of the 1921 version, which is out of copyright, are: Chorus :Dear old Southland, :I hear you calling me. :And I long how I long to roam, :Back to my old Kentucky home. Verse 1 :Dear old Southland, :For you my heart is yearning, :And I long just to see once more, :The land I love the Swanee shore. Verse 2 :I want to stray the town I was born, my home town, my little home town. :I want to play in the cotton and corn, to feel it, I used to steal it. :I want to hear dear old mother each morn. :Saying 'go long', 'go long', 'go long, 'go long to school :I want to be where the levee is near the water, I love the water. :I want to see Mammy Jinny so dear, I love her, Because I oughta. :I want to hear pick a ninnies in tune, :Singing 'go long', 'go long', 'go long', 'go long yo' mule! ==See also==