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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