| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 22872 |
| QUOTATION: | All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Stephen Collins Foster (18261864), U.S. songwriter. Old Folks at Home, Firth, Pond & Co. (1851).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937); the original words are written in dialect: All de world am sad, etc.. |
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