Dixie Dan 1907

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 29 Jan 2008
2008

Way down South where I was born,
in the land of cotton
and the land of corn,
I saw the light on a Monday morn,
and they called me Dixie Dan.
In an old burnt stump of an old burnt tree,
the doctor he discovered me,
and my mammy shook her sides with glee,
and she called me Dixie Dan.
Now a gal down there with corkscrew hair,
she won my heart and I declare,
I must have been slow,
when I let her go,
a travelling round with a minstrel show,

Oh....

Dixie, oh Dixie, Dixie Daaaan,
'Amblin ramblin' gamblin' Minstrel maaaan;
Coal black color all except my teeth,
with a loving disposition underneath;
My heart pines for the girl I left behind
Oh Trixie,
Trixie, Oh Trixie, Trixie Aaaann
My heart beats for you to beat the baaaand;
Way down South in the land of cotton,
Tell me you have not forgotten;
Dixie, Oh Dixie Dan.

Dixie, oh Dixie, Dixie Daaaan,
'Amblin ramblin' gamblin' Minstrel maaaan;
Coal black color all except my teeth,
with a loving disposition underneath;
My heart pines for the girl I left behind
Oh Trixie,
Trixie, Oh Trixie, Trixie Aaaann
My heart beats for you to beat the baaaand;
Way down South in the land of cotton,
Tell me you have not forgotten;
Dixie, Oh Dixie Dan.

Who's that gal sittin' way back there,
with the pearly teeth,
and the curly hair,
sit still my heart,
but I declare she looks like Trixie Ann.
Excuse me Miss,
but I'd like to know,
did you ever have a colored beau?
Who went away with a Minstrel show?
And they called him Dixie Dan.
What's that you say?
I see you smile,
I know'd you honey all the while;
when the show is o'er
to the old stage door,
walk right in honey
and then just ask for.

Oh...

Dixie, oh Dixie, Dixie Daaaan,
'Amblin ramblin' gamblin' Minstrel maaaan;
Coal black color all except my teeth,
with a loving disposition underneath;
My heart pines for the girl I left behind
Oh Trixie,
Trixie, Oh Trixie, Trixie Aaaann
My heart beats for you to beat the baaaand;
Way down South in the land of cotton,
Tell me you have not forgotten;
Dixie, Oh Dixie Dan.

Dixie, oh Dixie, Dixie Daaaan,
'Amblin ramblin' gamblin' Minstrel maaaan;
Coal black color all except my teeth,
with a loving disposition underneath;
My heart pines for the girl I left behind
Oh Trixie,
Trixie, Oh Trixie, Trixie Aaaann
My heart beats for you to beat the baaaand;
Way down South in the land of cotton,
Tell me you have not forgotten;
Dixie, Oh Dixie Dan.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Dixie Dan 1907
Music by Seymour Firth
Lyrics by Will.D.Cobb
© 1907 by Maurice Shapiro   New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Tuesday 29 January 2008 at 16.19
in association with Doug Grierson
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