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 surmise
You're from the place where I'm longing to be Your smiling face seems to say to me
You're from the homeland, my sunny homeland Tell me can it be
Are you from Dixie, I said from Dixie Where the fields of cotton beckons to me
I'm glad to see you, tell me I'll be you With my friends I'm longing to be
Are you from Alabama or Tennessee or Carolina Anyplace below the Mason-Dixon line
Are you from Dixie, I said from Dixie Yes I'm from Dixie too
It was a way back in old 89 When I first crossed that Mason-Dixon line
Gee but I've yearned long to return To them old folks I left behind
My home's a way down in Alabama On a plantation near Birmingham
One thing for certain, I'm through with flirting With those southbound trains
Are you from Dixie, I said from Dixie Where the fields of cotton beckons to me
I'm glad to see you, tell me I'll be you With my friends I'm longing to be
Are you from Alabama or Tennessee or Carolina Anyplace below the Mason-Dixon line
Are you from Dixie, I said from Dixie Yes I'm from Dixie too