While the Band is Playing Dixie (I'm humming Home Sweet Home)
is the full name of the song.
I received a request for lyrics of this song, identified as a Carter Family Song. Well, I found out it's not exactly a Carter family song - it was recorded on an album called An Historic Reunion: Sara and Maybelle The Original Carters. This page (click) indicates the song was written by Joseph F. Hortiz. I haven't found the publication date of the song, or the Carter recording date - it may be somewhere in the fine pring on this page (click), which gives a fragment of the lyrics:

They found it in his pocket, a blood-stained little note
A bullet hole had pierced it through and through
It began with, "Darling Mary, if I don't come back again
Just remember that my last thoughts were of you".
While the band is playing Dixie, I'm humming Home Sweet Home
It takes me back to Georgia, though I'm far across the foam
Once again beside the river with my Mary dear I roam
While the band is playing Dixie, I'm humming Home Sweet Home
Be it ever so humble, no place like home...


Can anybody post the lyrics?


I'm not sure I can link to this, but the Country Music Discography shows a song called "While the Band Is Playing Dixie" recorded June 16, 1931, but Russell and Louis Burton, who performed as The Burton Brothers.

-Joe-