Stephen C. Foster / Ring de banjo / Robert Shaw Chorale 

De time is nebber dreary,
If de darkey nebber groans;
De ladies nebber weary
Wid de rattle ob de bones;
Den come again Susanna
By de gaslight ob de moon;
We'll tum de old Piano
When de banjo's out ob tune.

(Ring, ring de Banjo!
I like dat good old song,
Come again my true-lub,
Oh! wha you been so long)

Oh! nebber count de bubbles
While dere's water in de spring,
De darkey hab no troubles
While he got dis song to sing.
De beauties ob creation
Will nebber lose der charm
While I roam de old plantation
Wid my true lub on my arm.

My lub, I'll hab to leabe you
While de ribber's runnin' high;
But I nebber can deceibe you __
So don't you wipe your eye.
I's guine to make some money;
But I'll come anodder day __
I'll come again my honey,
If I hab to work my way.

William Sidney Mount(1807-1868)/The Banjo Player.1856 

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