(Some One Waits and that is Why)
a popular song from 1915
words by Jack Frost
music by E. Clinton Keithley
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When the Northern sunset is glowing
Way down South my whole heart is going
Where the cotton grows, where the Swanee flows
There’s s girl named Dixie Rose
‘Mid the sweet magnolias’ perfuming
Rose of Dixie sweetly is blooming
Why am I so gay?
‘Cause I’m on my way, listen while I say
Chorus
I love the name of Dixie
Dixie, my Home, Sweet Home
I love its sunshine, I love its show’rs
That’s where I spent my happy, happy childhood hours
When anyone sings Dixie
My heart it shouts with glee
For somewhere ‘neath the southern sky
Someone waits, and that is why
I love the name of Dixie
- Old time joys and scenes of my childhood
Girls and boys who roamed in the wildwood
Dear old Dixie days and those Dixie ways
Round my heart their mem’ry stays
No one knows how much I’ve been yearning
For the time when I’d be returning
Let the music play
Start in right away, I just want to say