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Thread #116137   Message #2510719
Posted By: Richie
09-Dec-08 - 10:41 AM
Thread Name: Origins: The authors of the 'Carter Family songs'
Subject: Lyr Add: MY DIXIE DARLING
My Dixie Darling is taken from the song "Dixie Darling" by Gillispie and Weinrich in 1909.

MY DIXIE DARLING- Carter family

               Way down below the Mason-Dixon line
               There's where the honeysuckle are entwined
               There's where the southern winds are blowin'
               There's where the daisies' growin'
               Girls up north in their gay finery
               Whirling around in society
               Singing the song of my Dixie darling
               Where I long to be
                  
                   My Dixie darlin'
                   Listen to the song I sing
                   Beneath the silv'ry moon
                   With my banjo right in tune
                   My heart's forever true
                   I love no one but you
                   My Dixie darling
                   My Dixie queen

               Goin' down south, gonna have a good time
               See my girl down in old Caroline
               Drink my booze and do as I please
               For all the girls I long to squeeze
               Singing the song of my Dixie darling
               That's where I long to be going
               That's where the jellyroll's rolling
               With my Dixie queen

                   My Dixie darlin'
                   Listen to the song I sing
                   Beneath the silv'ry moon
                   With my banjo right in tune
                   My heart's forever true
                   I love no one but you
                   My Dixie darling
                   My Dixie queen