[WARNING: This song contains antiquated racial stereotypes. It is presented here for historical and educational purposes only.]
Featured in “The Gay White Way”, 1907
Words by Will D. Cobb
Music by Seymour Furth
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Way down South where I was born
In the land of cotton and the land of corn
I saw the light on a Monday morn
And they called me “Dixie Dan”
In an old burnt stump of an old burnt tree
The doctor he discovered me
And my mammy shoock her sides with glee
And she called me “Dixie Dan”
Now a gal down there with “cork-screw hair”
She won my heart and I declare
I must have been slow, when I let her go
A-travelling round with a minstrel show, Oh
Chorus
Dixie, Oh, Dixie Da-a-a-an
‘Amblin’, ramblin’, gamblin’ Mistrel ma-a-a-an
Coal-black color all except my teeth
With a loving disposition underneath
My heart pines for the girl I left behind
Oh Trixie, Trixie, oh Trixie, Trixie A-a-a-an
My heart beats for you to beat the ba-a-a-and
Way down South in the land of cotton
Tell me you have not forgotten
Dixie, Oh, Dixie Dan
- Who’s that gal sittin’ way back there
With the pearly teeth and the curly hair
Sit still my heart, I declare
She looks like “Trixie Ann”
Excuse me Miss, but I’d like to know
Did you ever have a colored beau?
Who went away with a Minstrel show?
And they called him “Dixie Dan”
What’s that you say? I see you smile
I know’d you honey all the while
When the show is o’er, to the old stage door
Walk right in honey and then just ask for