MISSISSIPPI MELODY

(H. M. Tennent)


As recorded by:
Jack Hylton & His Orchestra
V. Trio (Jack Hylton, Hugo Rignold, Chappie D’Amato)
Recorded 25th July 1928

Also recorded by:
Fred Douglas



Mississippi melody, 
Crooning like a honey bee
To the sunny fields of cotton
Same old music sweet and low
Bringing back from long ago
Memories I’ve half forgotten

Song of the stream, song of the dream,
Haunting refrain
Calling me home, never to roam
Far from you again

Happy days come back to me
When I hear that melody
Of the dear old Mississippi.



(Transcribed from John Wright’s 78 RPM 
Record Collection by Bill Huntley - January 2014)