Hello there stranger how do you do
there’s something I’d like to say to you
You seem surprised I recognize
I’m no detective but I just surmise
You’re from the place I’m longing to be
your smiling face seems to say to me
You’re from my homeland my sunny homeland
tell me can it be?
Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me
I’m glad to see you tell me I’ll be you and the friend I’m longing to see
Are you from Alabama Tennessee or Caroline
Any place below the Mason Dixon Line
Are you from Dixie I say from Dixie ’cause I’m from Dixie too.
It was a way back in old ’89
When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line
Gee but again I long to return
To those good old folks I left behind
My home was way down in old Alabam’
On the plantation near Birmingham
and there’s one thing certain I’m surely flirtin’
With those southbound trains