Under the Baobab
(personal favourite)

Under the baobab she's laid with care,
Sang a lone mother while weeping,
Under the baobab, with golden hair,
My little one's quietly sleeping.

Chorus:
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Sang a lone mother while weeping,
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Under the baobab she's sleeping.

Under the baobab by night and day,
Sorrowing ever I ponder,
Free from its shadowy, gloomy ray,
Ah! never again can she wander.

Chorus:
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Sang a lone mother while weeping,
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Under the baobab she's sleeping.

Under the baobab I breathe a prayer,
Long to linger forever
Near to my darling with golden hair,
In lands where there's sorrowing never.

Chorus:
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Sang a lone mother while weeping,
Fair, fair, and golden hair,
Under the baobab she's sleeping.

By Stephen Foster, 1860

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