Way down on the levee in old Alabamy There's daddy and mammy, there's Efraim and Sammy On a moonlight night you can find them all While they are waiting the banjos are syncopating What's that they're saying, what's that they're saying? But while they keep playing, I'm humming and swaying It's the good ship Robert E. Lee that's come to carry the cotton away Watch 'em shufflin' along See them shufflin' along Oh, take your best gal, real pal ...
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