Music -- Down Yonder

Down Yonder (1921)

Railroad train, railroad train, hurry some more
Put a little steam on just like never before
Hustle on, bustle on, I've got the blues
Yearning for my Swanee shore, brother if you only knew
You'd want to hurry up too

Down yonder someone beckons to me
Down yonder somone reckons on me
I seem to see a race in memory
Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
Swanee shore, I miss you more and more
Every day, my mammy land, you're simply grand

Down yonder when the folks get the news
Don't wonder at the hullabaloos
There's daddy and mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy
Waiting down yonder for me

Summer night, fields of white, bright cotton moon
My, but I feel glad, I'm gonna see you all soon
'Lasses cakes, mammy bakes, I taste them now
I can hear the darkies croon
I'll see my sweetie once more
There's lots of kissing in store

Down yonder someone beckons to me
Down yonder somone reckons on me
I seem to see a race in memory
Between the Natchez and the Robert E. Lee
Swanee shore, I miss you more and more
Every day, my mammy land, you're simply grand

Down yonder when the folks get the news
Don't wonder at the hullabaloos
There's daddy and mammy, there's Ephraim and Sammy
Waiting down yonder for me

Lyrics by L. Wolfe Gilbert.

Recorded by Del Wood; many others (often as an instrumental).

Gilbert had written the lyrics for the 1912 song "Waiting for the Robert E. Lee" (for which Lewis F. Muir wrote the music). In "Down Yonder," Gilbert brought back four of the characters from the earlier song -- Daddy, Mammy, Ephram and Sammy.