| @KMIDI KARAOKE FILE@Lby Tom Lehrer@TI Wanna Go Back To Dixie 1953 Tom Lehrer@TDr. Pitt-Payne in London UK - 13 Nov 2002
I wanna go back to Dixie
take me back to dear ol' Dixie,
that's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me.
Ol' times there are not forgotten,
whuppin' slaves and sellin' cotton,
and waitin' for the Robert E. Lee.
(It was never there on time.)
I'll go back to the Swanee
where pellagra makes you scrawny,
and the honeysuckle clutters up the vine.
I really am a fixin'
to go home and start a mixin'
down below that Mason Dixon line.
[Spoken:] Won'tcha come with me
to Alabammy,
back to the arms of my dear ol' Mammy,
her cookin's lousy
and her hands are clammy,
but what the hell, it's home.
[Sung:] Yes, for paradise
the Southland is my nominee.
Jes' give me a ham hock
and a grit of hominy.
I wanna go back to Dixie
I wanna be a Dixie pixie
and eat cornpone till it's
comin' out of my ears.
I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen
and put my white sheet on again,
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years,
the land of the boll weevil,
where the laws are medieval,
is callin' me to come and never more roam.
I wanna go back to the Southland,
That y'all and 'shet-ma-mouth' land,
be it ever so decadent,
there's no place like home. |
