ARE YOU FROM DIXIE George L. Cobb-Jack Yellen / M. Witmark & Sons, ASCAP written as early as 1915, discovered in the mid-30s by the Blue Sky Boys and used as their radio theme transcribed by Warren Gumeson from The Blue Sky Boys in Concert, 1964 (Rounder CD 11536, c1989) () Hello there, stranger, how do you do There's something I'd like to say to you () You seem surprised I recognize, () just surmise () You're from the place I'm longing to be Your smilin' face seems to say to me () You're from my homeland, my sunny homeland, () be? Are you from () Dixie? Where the () fields of cotton beckon to me I'm glad to see you, tell me how () be you? And those ( Are you from () Alabama, Tennessee, or Caroline? () Dixon Line Are you from Dixie, I say from () Dixie? 'Cause () too. It was 'way back in old '89 When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line Gee but I've yearned, longed to return, To all those good old folks I left behind My home is way down in old Alabam' On a plantation near Birmingham And there's one thing certain, I'm surely flirtin' With those southbound trains
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