How's Ev'ry Little Thing in Dixie 1916

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 28 Feb 2005

I declare but this is surely some surprise!
I must say I hardly can believe my eyes;
Can this be Old Joe Lee
that I went to school with down in Tennessee?
Hello Joe! You're surely looking mighty fine;
haven't seen you for a long, long time;
Now listen old neighbor,
just do me a favor
and tell this yearning heart of mine

How's every little thing in Dixie?
How's every little thing at home?
How's my Maw? How's my Paw?
Brother Bill and all the friends
I'm longing for?
Come on Joe, and tell me all about 'em,
you don't know how sad I've been without 'em
How's every little thing in Dixie?
Dixie where I long to be.

How's every little thing in Dixie?
How's every little thing at home?
How's my Maw? How's my Paw?
Brother Bill and all the friends
I'm longing for?
Come on Joe, and tell me all about 'em,
you don't know how sad I've been without 'em
How's every little thing in Dixie?
Dixie where I long to be.

How's my dear old mammy?
Oh how she could bake
pumpkin pie and nice delicious angel cake!
How's Bill Green, long and lean,
who used to play the bones
and shake the tambourine?
Come on tell me all about those pals of mine;
how I miss 'em in the evening time;
When my heart goes roamin'
way back to my home
in the land across the Dixon Line...

How's every little thing in Dixie?
How's every little thing at home?
How's my Maw? How's my Paw?
Brother Bill and all the friends
I'm longing for?
Come on Joe, and tell me all about 'em,
you don't know how sad I've been without 'em
How's every little thing in Dixie?
Dixie where I long to be.

How's every little thing in Dixie?
How's every little thing at home?
How's my Maw? How's my Paw?
Brother Bill and all the friends
I'm longing for?
Come on Joe, and tell me all about 'em,
you don't know how sad I've been without 'em
How's every little thing in Dixie?
Dixie where I long to be.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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How's Ev'ry Little Thing in Dixie 1916
Lyric by Jack Yellen. Music by Albert Gumble
© MCMXVI by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Monday 28 February 2005 at 12.36
in association with Doug Grierson
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