I Leave For Dixie Today 1918

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 20 Aug 2009
2009

I'm as happy as I ever want to be,
and the reason's just as plain as A, B, C,
I got a letter from my sweetheart, Nell,
Gee! but she had a lot of good things to tell,
I've got a ticket in my pocket for my home,
I'll soon be on a Pullman car,
I'll count your blessings
for you one by one,
this is what they are:

I've got a sweetheart waiting
down in New Orleans
and I leave for Dixie today,
I've got a longing for those
ne'er forgotten scenes,
Oh, don't you hear
those steamboats puffing away,
I've got a dear old mother
that I long to see,
and a daddy old and gray
I've got my savings sacked
and everything packed,
and I leave for dear old Dixie today.

I've got a sweetheart waiting
down in New Orleans
and I leave for Dixie today,
I've got a longing for those
ne'er forgotten scenes,
Oh, don't you hear
those steamboats puffing away,
I've got a dear old mother
that I long to see,
and a daddy old and gray
I've got my savings sacked
and everything packed,
and I leave for dear old Dixie today.

I can hardly wait until it's time to start,
trains for Dixie seem to be so far apart,
if they don't hurry now and get up steam,
I'm goin' down and buy a flying machine,
The folks down there
are waiting for me anxiously
on the Mississippi shore,
I'll never leave that sunny southland
if I get home once more.

I've got a sweetheart waiting
down in New Orleans
and I leave for Dixie today,
I've got a longing for those
ne'er forgotten scenes,
Oh, don't you hear
those steamboats puffing away,
I've got a dear old mother
that I long to see,
and a daddy old and gray
I've got my savings sacked
and everything packed,
and I leave for dear old Dixie today.

I've got a sweetheart waiting
down in New Orleans
and I leave for Dixie today,
I've got a longing for those
ne'er forgotten scenes,
Oh, don't you hear
those steamboats puffing away,
I've got a dear old mother
that I long to see,
and a daddy old and gray
I've got my savings sacked
and everything packed,
and I leave for dear old Dixie today.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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I Leave For Dixie Today 1918
words & music by Frank Swift
© MCMXVIII by The Frank C.Huston Co.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 20 August 2009 at 10.41
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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