SOMEONE PLAY DIXIE FOR ME
(Pete Roy)

In the year 64, we were fighting a war
For a reason that we hardly knew.
Many tears had been shed, many loved ones lay dead
In the fight between the Grey and the Blue

I recall a young lad, to his mother and dad
Said goodbye at the old garden gate.
And I heard his mother say, son we'll watch and we'll pray
If it takes you forever we'll wait.

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If they carry me back down that old Southern track
I hope you will answer my plea.
When they lower me down in that sweet Georgia ground
Have someone play Dixie for me.

Now a long year has passed when a letter at last
From his captain has finally come home
Said the one for whom you yearn, he will never return
For he's died in a camp way up north.

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With a rose upon his breast, we played his last request
What God gave he's taken away.
His battles being won, his last song was sung
When the tune from sweet Dixie did play.

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A fine song written by the late Pete Roy. When we do it, we finish with a very slow fiddle line from Dixie.
Sandy