Camptown Shakers: Music
Rose Of Alabama
(Camptown Shakers)
Written by Silas S. Steele in 1846. While courting Rose, our luckless champion must choose between his banjo and his sweetheart.
While courting Rose, our luckless champion must choose between his banjo and his sweetheart.
Away from Mississippi’s vale wid my ole banjo for a sail
I crossed upon a cotton bale to Rose ob Alabama
I landed on de ol’ sand bank I sat upon a holler plank
An’ dere I made the banjo twank for Rose ob Alabama
Oh, Brown Rosey, De Rose ob Alabama
A sweet tobacco posey is de Rose of Alabama,
A sweet tobacco posey is de Rose of Alabama.
Oh arter dreckly, by an’ by, de moon rose white as Rosey’s eye,
Den like a young coon out so sly, Stole Rose ob Alabama.
I axe her set down whar she