A popular song from 1912
Words and music by Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder
(same song as “I’m Going Back To Dixie”)
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m very glad, I’m very glad
Because a train I’m takin’
To that ne’er forgotten or forsaken
Sunny land of cotton
Down to the town I was born
I’m glad I had, I’m glad I had
Enough to buy a ticket
Now I hope that there will be no pause
Let me tell you the reason because
Chorus:
I want to be, I want to be
I want to be down in Dixie
Where the hens are dog gone glad to lay
Scrambled eggs in new mown hay
You ought to see, you ought to see
You to see my home in Dixie
You can tell the world I’m going to
D-I-X-I don’t know how to spell it
But I’m goin’, you bet I’m goin’
To my home in Dixie land
- Conductor man, conductor man
I’m kind o’ hard of hearin’
So just fix it when the train is nearin’
Dear old Dixie, better shout
Holler out, good and loud
Conductor man, conductor man
i’m going to fall asleep now
Tell the motor man to start the train
Let me tell you when I wake up again
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: