I Wanna Go Back to Dixie(Live) (Live)-Tom Lehrer

[ti:I Wanna Go Back To Dixie] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:In Concert] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wanna Go Back To Dixie - Tom Lehrer [00:01.15]Well what I like to do on formal occasions [00:03.33]Like this is to take [00:04.66]Some of the various types of songs [00:06.05]That we all know and presumably [00:07.89]Love and as it were [00:10.89]To kick them when they're down [00:12.61] [00:15.20]I find that [00:18.33]If you take the various popular song [00:19.49]Forms to their logical extremes [00:20.78] [00:21.51]You can arrive at almost [00:22.61]Anything from the ridiculous to the obscene [00:25.16] [00:27.81]Or as they say in New York sophisticated [00:30.15] [00:31.66]I'd like to [00:33.73] [00:37.71]I'd like to [00:38.19]Illustrate with several hundred examples for you this evening [00:40.58]First of all [00:41.17] [00:42.13]The southern type song about the wonders of the [00:44.05]American south [00:44.73]But it's always seemed to me that most of these [00:47.78]Songs really don't go far enough [00:49.12] [00:50.02]The following song on the other [00:51.69]Hand goes too far It's called [00:54.79]I Wanna Go Back To Dixie [00:56.34] [01:00.99]I wanna go back to Dixie [01:02.81]Take me back to dear ol' Dixie [01:05.05]That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me [01:08.25] [01:09.04]Ol' times there are not forgotten [01:11.16]Whuppin' slaves and sellin' cotton [01:13.00] [01:13.63]And waitin' for the Robert E Lee [01:16.26]It was never there on time [01:18.22] [01:19.02]I'll go back to the Swanee [01:20.75]Where pellagra makes you scrawny [01:23.11]And the Honeysuckle clutters up the vine [01:26.03] [01:26.80]I really am a-fixing [01:28.92]To go home and start a-mixing [01:30.75]Down below that Mason-Dixon line [01:34.90]Oh poll tax how I love ya how I love ya [01:38.61]My dear old poll tax [01:40.87] [01:42.47]Won'tcha come with me to Alabammy [01:44.54]Back to the arms of my dear ol' Mammy [01:46.65]Her cookin's lousy and her hands are clammy [01:48.80]But what the hell it's home [01:49.96] [01:52.64]Yes for paradise the Southland is my nominee [01:57.47]Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy [02:02.80]I wanna go back to Dixie [02:04.96]I wanna be a dixie pixie [02:07.14]And eat cornpone 'til it's coming outta my ears [02:10.65] [02:11.18]I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen [02:13.88]And put my white sheet on again [02:16.11]I ain't seen one good lynching in years [02:18.49] [02:22.03]The land of the boll weevil [02:23.82] [02:24.34]Where the laws are medieval [02:27.66]Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam [02:30.19] [02:31.05]I wanna go back to the Southland [02:33.26]That y'all and shet ma mouth land [02:36.52]Be it ever so decadent [02:40.79] [02:41.56]There's no place like home