I Wanna Go Back to Dixie-Tom Lehrer

[ti:I Wanna Go Back to Dixie] [ar:Tom Lehrer] [al:Songs By Tom Lehrer] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Wanna Go Back to Dixie - Tom Lehrer [00:04.42]I wanna go back to dixie [00:06.33]Take me back to dear ol' dixie [00:08.40]That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me [00:11.74] [00:12.48]Ol' times there are not forgotten [00:14.29]Whuppin' slaves and sellin' cotton [00:16.80]And waitin' for the robert e lee [00:19.79]It was never there on time [00:21.97]I'll go back to the swanee [00:23.85]Where pellagra makes you scrawny [00:26.06]And the honeysuckle clutters up the vine [00:28.95] [00:30.27]I really am a fixin' [00:32.04]To go home and start a mixin' [00:33.99]Down below that mason-dixon line [00:37.59]Oh poll tax how i love ya how i love ya [00:42.17]My dear old poll tax [00:44.98] [00:46.29]Won'tcha come with me to alabammy [00:48.14]Back to the arms of my dear ol' mammy [00:50.19]Her cookin's lousy and her hands are clammy [00:52.16]But what the hell it's home [00:53.55] [00:54.66]Yes for paradise the southland is my nominee [00:59.27] [00:59.86]Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy [01:06.16]I wanna go back to dixie [01:08.24]I wanna be a dixie pixie [01:10.12]And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears [01:13.24] [01:14.00]I wanna talk with southern gentlemen [01:16.58]And put my white sheet on again [01:18.43]I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years [01:21.23] [01:22.56]The land of the boll weevil [01:25.04]Where the laws are medieval [01:27.85]Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam [01:30.99] [01:31.64]I wanna go back to the southland [01:33.27]That y'all and shet ma mouth land [01:36.94]Be it ever so decadent [01:40.71] [01:41.55]There's no place like home