Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland 1910

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 Feb 2008
2008

When the sun is shining
way out o'er the land,
ev'ry one is smiling
and they all feel grand,
that is the time I start to pine
for that dear old home of mine.
I keep on a longing for to go once more,
to that beautiful and dreamy land of Sicamore,
as soon as I marry
I won't tarry
but I'll go right back to Dixieland.

I'm longing for a home in Dixieland,
Dixieland, my own land.
The place where night and day is oh! so grand,
oh! so grand that you can
understand....
The first thing that I'll do when I get home,
way down home to my Southern home
is to get down on my knees
to ask the Good Lord please
let me live and live,
let me stay and stay
and let me die in Dixieland.

I'm longing for a home in Dixieland,
Dixieland, my own land.
The place where night and day is oh! so grand,
oh! so grand that you can
understand....
The first thing that I'll do when I get home,
way down home to my Southern home
is to get down on my knees
to ask the Good Lord please
let me live and live,
let me stay and stay
and let me die in Dixieland.

When I'm all alone at home
and all is still
that's the time
when nature seems to have its will.
Birds are singing
and church bells are ringing
for the day has gone to rest,
That is when I sit and watch the sun go down
over hills and dales in my old Dixie Town.
People all wonder when I sit and ponder
and wish myself in Dixieland.

I'm longing for a home in Dixieland,
Dixieland, my own land.
The place where night and day is oh! so grand,
oh! so grand that you can
understand....
The first thing that I'll do when I get home,
way down home to my Southern home
is to get down on my knees
to ask the Good Lord please
let me live and live,
let me stay and stay
and let me die in Dixieland.

I'm longing for a home in Dixieland,
Dixieland, my own land.
The place where night and day is oh! so grand,
oh! so grand that you can
understand....
The first thing that I'll do when I get home,
way down home to my Southern home
is to get down on my knees
to ask the Good Lord please
let me live and live,
let me stay and stay
and let me die in Dixieland.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland 1910
Words & Music by Elizabeth Brice & Charles King
© 1910 by Ted Snyder Co. -  New York
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Thursday 21 February 2008 at 10.30
in association with Doug Grierson
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