Dixie Darling

Way down below the Mason Dixon line
Down where the honeysuckles are entwined
There's where the southern winds are blowing
There's where the daisies growing
Girls up north in their gay finery
Whirlin' around in the society
Singing songs about my dixie darling
Where I long to be

Chorus
My dixie darling, listen to the song I sing
Beneath the silver moon, With my banjo right in tune
My heart is ever true, I love no one but you
My dixie darling, my dixie queen

Goin' down south to have a big time
See my gal in old Caroline
Drink my booze and do as I please
For that gal I long to squeeze
And I'm singing songs about my dixie darling
There's where I long to be going
Down where the jelly rolls growing
To meet my dixie queen

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