Dwight Yoakam - I Sang Dixie lyrics
[Dwight Yoakam - I Sang Dixie lyrics]
I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
He said
"Way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain't near as
Rotten as they are
On this damned old LA street"
Then he drew a dying breath
And laid his head against my chest
Please, Lord
Take his soul back home to Dixie
And I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
He said, "Listen to me, son
While you still can
Run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see, what life here has done to me"
Then he closed those old blue eyes
And fell limp, against my side no more pain
And now he's safe back home in Dixie
And I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
He said
"Way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain't near as
Rotten as they are
On this damned old LA street"
Then he drew a dying breath
And laid his head against my chest
Please, Lord
Take his soul back home to Dixie
And I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
He said, "Listen to me, son
While you still can
Run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see, what life here has done to me"
Then he closed those old blue eyes
And fell limp, against my side no more pain
And now he's safe back home in Dixie
And I sang Dixie, as he died
But people just walked on by, as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of
All his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie, as he died
I sang Dixie, as he died