Respectfully Dedicated
To Uifs Annie Berger.
"Carry My Back to Tennesse; or Ellie Rhee" (1865)
As Sung by Carter's Zouave Troupe.
Adapted and arranged by Septimus Winner.

1.
Sweet Ellie Rhee so dear to me
  Is lost forever more;
Our home was down in Tennessee,
  Before dis cruel war.

[REFRAIN]
Then carry me back to Tennessee,
  Back where I long to be.
Among the fields of yellow corn;
  To my darling Ellie Rhee.

CHORUS
Then carry me back to Tennessee,
  Back where I long to be.
Among the fields of yellow corn;
  To my darling Ellie Rhee.

2.
Oh why did I from day to day,
  Keep wishing to be free,
And from my massa run away,
  And leave my Ellie Rhee

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3.
They said that I would soon be free
  And happy all the day,
But if dey take me back again
  I'll neber run away.

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4.
The war is over now at last,
  De color'd race am free,
Dat good time comin' on so fast;
  I'm waitin' for to see.

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