American Old Time Song Lyrics: 05 The Old Pine Tree

Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 5

THE OLD PINE TREE.

Oh! darkies, now I'm gwine to sing,
De truth to you I'll tell,
Oh happy days dat I hah seen
Wid my dear Nancy Bell.
Oh! I wish dat I was back again
'Way down in Tennessee,
Wid my dear Nancy by my side,
Beneath de old pine tree.

Chorus,
Tis many a night since first we met,
'Neath dat old piue tree;
An' dar we told our tales of lub,
How happy we shall he.

My lub has left me long ago,
Whar she is no one can tell;
Au' I am nearly crazy now
For my dear Nancy Bell.
But I dreamt last night, when all was still,
Dat she'd come back to me,
An' I would yet see happy days
Beneath de old pine tree -Chorus.

I quite forgot I was so old,
It seems to me a dream,
Dat three score years hab past and gone
Since I was seventeen.
But eb'rything is right at last, a
An' Nancy is true to me,
An' when we die, oh! let us rest
Beneath de old pine tree -Chorus.