Are You From DixieBb

Hello, 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've just surmised.
You're from the place where I'm longing to be,
Your smiling face seems to say to me,
You're from my own land, My sunny homeland,
Tell me can it be?

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Are you from Dixie? I say 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
Are you from Dixie, I say from Dixie!
'Cause I'm from Dixie too!

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It was a way back in ol eighty nine,
When first I crossed that Mason Dixon line
Gee! but I've yearned, Longed to return
To all those good ol folks I left behind.
My home is way down in ol Alabam'
On a plantation near Birmingham,
And one thing's certain, I'm surely flirtin'
With those southbound trains: