American Foster Hometown Relatives English Lyrics I need English lyrics for this famous song

Songwriting Background:

Old Folks at Home. This song is one of the masterpieces of the American composer Foster in the early 20th century, which was once very popular in the world and was absorbed as creative material by many American movies, ** dramas, jazz music, etc. In 1851, while working in Cincinnati, far from his hometown and relatives, Foster felt lonely and melancholy away from his family, so he wrote this song to express his homesickness, and the lyrics of this song were also written by the author himself.

2.Song Appreciation:

The melody of the song has a strong hymn style, this is because Foster has loved ** since he was a child, and often accompanied the black nanny to the church to listen to the black people sing hymns, and these black religious songs made a deep impression on him. At that time, a ** magazine in the United States recounted the popularity of this song in the United States: "'Relatives in the Hometown' is an unparalleled song with a black ** melody.

All the people were humming it. The piano and guitar played it day and night; The sad lady is singing it; Romantic gentlemen are singing it; The dashing youth is singing it; Singers sang about it; Street accordion artists are also singing its ...... as they play”

3.Chinese lyrics:

Thousands of miles along the banks of the dear Swani River, where there are relatives from my homeland, I miss all day long.

Traveled all over the world, wandered everywhere, and experienced hardships.

I will always miss my loved ones who left my hometown.

I have traveled to the ends of the world, but I still miss my relatives and the old orchards in my hometown.

Traveled all over the world, wandered everywhere, and experienced hardships.

I will always miss my loved ones who left my hometown.

4.About the Author:

Stephen Collinsfoster (1826 1864), an American composer, whose compositions are simple in structure, smooth in rhythm, not wide in range, and concise in material, is both sympathetic to the fate of black slaves and his personal experience of living alone in a foreign land. He has composed 200 songs, including "Relatives in My Hometown", "My Kentucky Hometown", "Golden-Haired Jenny", "Beautiful Oneiroi", "Ah, Susanna", and "Old Black Slave", many of which are well-known songs. The first truly great American home was Stephen Foster, who was once known as the "folk song maker".

The story of his life illustrates the stark difference between the old world and the new world. He was born in 1826, the era of Europe, when Beethoven, Schubert, Rossini, and Meyerbier were at the height of their fame, while Berlioz, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt, and Verdi were all growing into great men. If he had been born on the other side of the ocean, he would have gone to a choral school or a ** academy, and become a symphonic composer rather than some simple song and composer.

In fact, he was born in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was the first truly great American home to be called a "folk song maker."