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Way Down Upon the Suwannee River
Florida's state song is the Stephen Foster classic, Old Folks at Home, or, if you prefer the alternate name, Suwannee River.
The song is about a slave longing for his easygoing days back on the plantation. As you can probably imagine, the song hasn't aged all that well, especially since the original lyrics were meant to be performed by a blackface performer and were written as such.
Florida put up these fancy signs with the first bar of the song at all major crossings of the fabled Suwannee. I shot this while my friend was going 90 (in an Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight with a dirty windshield), so it is somewhat blurry.
I-10, Suwannee/Madison County line.
Way Down Upon the Suwannee River
Florida's state song is the Stephen Foster classic, Old Folks at Home, or, if you prefer the alternate name, Suwannee River.
The song is about a slave longing for his easygoing days back on the plantation. As you can probably imagine, the song hasn't aged all that well, especially since the original lyrics were meant to be performed by a blackface performer and were written as such.
Florida put up these fancy signs with the first bar of the song at all major crossings of the fabled Suwannee. I shot this while my friend was going 90 (in an Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight with a dirty windshield), so it is somewhat blurry.
I-10, Suwannee/Madison County line.