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Goodbye Dixie
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Corey Smith
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{Whistling Dixie:}
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Passed an old plantation home off Hwy. 41
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Been around since 1850, way before the Union come
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Built up on a hill, its got a 500-acre view
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But there ain’t been no cotton there since Sherman’s boys marched through
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They’ve come and burned us down
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Guess we had it comin’
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{Whistling Dixie:}
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Jumped out of my pickup truck, there was something in the wind
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Filled my soul with empty and sent a chill across my skin
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Heard the ghost of a black man hollerin’ “Blue” across the field
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He said “they sold my only daughter to keep that mansion on a hill”
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And I wanted to burn it down
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Aww, but it wouldn’t do no good
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I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace
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We’ve got enough trouble here without you haunting me
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We buried that cross now we’re looking ahead
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So go on Dixie don’t bother me, I’m tryin’ to forget
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Drove up to the courthouse that holds the county seat
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I walked underneath the poplar trees, casting shadows on Main Street
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I read the old bronze marker I’d seen many times before
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And after all these years I learned what those branches were for
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They used to hang ‘em here, back in the days of ole Jim Crowe
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A black man I knew from high school came walkin’ out in chains
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He used to make me laugh, but now his eyes were filled with pain
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He got busted sellin’ rock down there on MLK
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So the county came and locked him up and took his kids away
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Oh, he used to seem alright to me
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Man, I wonder what went wrong
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I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace
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We’ve got enough trouble here without you haunting me
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We buried that cross now I’m looking ahead
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So go on Dixie don’t bother me, I’m tryin’ to forget
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Way down yonder in the land of cotton, oh how times have changed
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But I wonder if the truth is marching on
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Its hard to be a Southern man and learn your history
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Cause it all comes back and hits you close to home
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I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace
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We’ve got enough trouble here without you haunting me
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We buried that cross now I’m trying to make a dime
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So go on Dixie don’t bother me,
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So go on Dixie don’t bother me,
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So go on Dixie don’t bother me,
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Because I ain’t got the time
Corey Smith - Twenty-One (Official Music...
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