Grandpa Jones — Are You From Dixie?

[Verse 1] Hello, there, stranger! How do you do? There's something I'd like to say to you Now, don't be surprised, you're recognized! I'm no detective but I've just surmised You're from the place where I long to be Your smiling face seems to say to me You're from my own land My sunny homeland Tell me can it be? [Chorus] That you from Dixie! I said from Dixie! Where the fields of cotton beckon to me I'm glad to see you Tell me how be you And the friends I'm longing to see Are you from Alabama, Tennessee or Caroline Any place below the Mason Dixon line Oh you're from Dixie I said from Dixie! 'Cause I'm from Dixie too! [Verse 2] It was a way back in eighty nine I crossed that old Mason Dixon line Gee but I've yearned Longed to return To that ole place that I left behind My home is way down in Alerbam' On a plantation near Birmingham There's one thing's certain I'm always flirtin' With those southbound trains [Chorus] That run to Dixie! I said to Dixie! Where the fields of cotton beckon to me I'm glad to see you Tell me how be you And the friends I'm longing to see Are you from Alabama, Tennessee or Caroline Any place below the Mason Dixon line Oh you're from Dixie I said from Dixie! 'Cause I'm from Dixie too!