A popular song from 1903.
Words by Jas. O’Dea.
Music by Robt. J. Adams.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Southward where the bayou breezes blow
Shoreward where the palm trees bend and sway
Homeward to the sweetest girl I know
Oft’ times in my dreams I stray
Dow South in her old plantation home
She reigns in that land of bliss serene
There’s where in my dreams I nightly roam
Back to my Dixie Queen
Chorus
For ’round my heart
The sweetest girl in Dixie
By love’s art, has cast a spell
That’s truly won me
Shall we part, well I should murmur nixie
For she’s my pearl, the sweetest girl
In dear old Dixieland
- Blue eyes has the southern maid of mine
Red lips that would lure the honey bee
Graceful as a swaying southern pine
Nature’s own queen is she
Oft’ times thro’ the lonely night I cry
Sweetheart when the fields again are green
Homeward where my heart is I will hie
Back to my Dixie Queen
Sung here by Vancha March: