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The Columbia World of Quotations.  1996.
 
 
NUMBER:22872
QUOTATION:All the world is sad and dreary, Everywhere I roam.
ATTRIBUTION:Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864), 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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