Crossword puzzle clue "start of an old song lyric"

Start of an old song lyric

"She was __ from the low country": old folk song lyric

"We'll ___ there to greet her" (old song lyric)

“This is ___ old world to be alone” (blues-song lyric)

"...like a big pizza pie, that's ___" (old song lyric)

"He'd fly through the air with the greatest of ___" (old song lyric)

"... comin' __ baked a cake": old song lyric

Old song with the lyric "When he would ride in the afternoon / I'd follow him with my hickory broom"