I’m Going Back To Dixie

From “She Knows Better Now”, 1912
Words and music by Irving Berlin and Ted Snyder


The sheet music:


Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:


Lyrics

  1. 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 is because:

Chorus:
I want to be, I want to be
I want to be down home in Dixie
Where the hens are doggone glad to lay
Scrambled eggs in the new mown hay
You ought to see, you ought to see
You ought 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 Dixieland

  1. 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 goin’ to fall asleep now
    Tell the motorman to start the train
    Let me tell you when I wake up again

Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: