I Wanna Go Back To Dixie lyrics

Song information

Artist: Tom Lehrer
Album: Tom Lehrer Revisited

Lyrics

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 pickin' 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 jasmine and the tear gas smell just fine
I really am a-fixin'
To go home and start a-mixin'
Down below that mason-dixon line

Oh, poll tax, how I love ya, how I love ya
My dear old poll tax

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
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 'til it's comin' outta 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 evermore 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

[from http://lyrics.doheth.co.uk]

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