My Dixie Darlin’
Melody, first verse and chorus written by A.P. Carter, Peer International Corporation.
Additional two verses written by Sam Gleaves, 2014.
Way down below the Mason-Dixon line
Down where the honeysuckles are entwined
There’s where the southern winds are blowing
There’s where the daisies growing.
Girls of the north in gay finery
Whirling around in society
Singing a song of Dixie darlin’
Where I long to be.
CHORUS: My Dixie darlin’, listen to this song I sing
Beneath the silver moon
With my banjo right in tune
My heart is ever true, I love no one but you
My Dixie darling, my Dixie dream.
I’d walk the miles to hear you sing,
Like they did in old Maces Springs.
March wind blow my blues away,
On the sunny side to stay.
We’ll go down south where the living’s easy
And time moves slow and the cooking’s greasy
People might talk, but we’ll live freely
In our Dixie dream.
CHORUS
My people they all want to meet you,
Ten minutes time, they’ll want to keep you
Then we can all spend the evening
Telling tales and when they’re leaving
We’ll sit for hours in the old porch swing
Listen to the night bugs sing
The quiet it says everything
In our Dixie dream.
CHORUS