Why Don't The Band Play Dixie 1910

James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 22 Sep 2004

A Yankee in a foreign land
was strolling round one day
and heard the strains of music grand
not very far away,
They played a song called
"Wacht am Rhein" and then
"God Save The King"
He stood right up and shouted out
on the air these words did ring:

Why don't the band play "Dixie"
Why don't the band play
"Auld Lang Syne"
or any strain from Yankee Land,
is good enough for mine,
The Stars and Stripes for ever
I think they are simply grand.
All I want is to live and die,
in dear old Yankee Land.

Why don't the band play "Dixie"
Why don't the band play
"Auld Lang Syne"
or any strain from Yankee Land,
is good enough for mine,
The Stars and Stripes for ever
I think they are simply grand.
All I want is to live and die,
in dear old Yankee Land.

This Yankee left this foreign land
and started home again,
he said: "Three cheers for Uncle Sam
Oh how I love that name,
and when he reached his native shore
he shouted out Hooray,
his Yankee heart was filled with joy
for no more he has to say:

Why don't the band play "Dixie"
Why don't the band play
"Auld Lang Syne"
or any strain from Yankee Land,
is good enough for mine,
The Stars and Stripes for ever
I think they are simply grand.
All I want is to live and die,
in dear old Yankee Land.

Why don't the band play "Dixie"
Why don't the band play
"Auld Lang Syne"
or any strain from Yankee Land,
is good enough for mine,
The Stars and Stripes for ever
I think they are simply grand.
All I want is to live and die,
in dear old Yankee Land.

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Why Don't The Band Play Dixie 1910
by S.J.Reber
© MCMX by Victor Kremer Co.  Chicago - New York
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sequence and karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Wednesday 22 September 2004 at 12.33
in association with Doug Grierson
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