A river in the south-eastern United States. It starts in a huge swamp in Georgia, runs down through Florida, and empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It is dark, slow water — the colour of strong tea, because of the plants it runs through. Most people outside America who know the name know it from a song: Stephen Foster wrote 'Old Folks at Home' in 1851, and the first line is 'Way down upon the Swanee River'. Notice the spelling changed — Foster shortened it to Swanee to fit the music, and he had never seen the river; he found the name on a map. So there are really two words now: Suwannee, the real river you can paddle a boat on, and Swanee, the song word. Here is the 'though actually' — the song is written in the voice of an enslaved Black man missing his home, in the plantation-show style of that time, and its old words are offensive today. Florida still uses it as the state song, but only after rewriting the lyrics. Say it soo-WAH-nee.

蘇瓦尼河（美國喬治亞州流經佛羅里達州的河）；歌裡拼作 Swanee，中文常見〈故鄉的親人〉或〈史瓦尼河〉。