Passed an old plantation off Hwy. 41 around since 1850, way before the Union come Built up on a hill, its got a 500-acre But there ain't been no cotton there since boys marched through They've come and us down Guess we had it
Jumped out of my pickup truck, there was something in the Filled my soul with and sent a chill across my skin Heard the of a black man hollerin' "Blue" across the field He said "they sold my only to keep that mansion on a hill" And I wanted to burn it Aww, but it do no good
I cried Dixie, go rest in peace We've got enough trouble without you haunting me We that cross now we're looking ahead So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm tryin' to
up to the courthouse that holds the county seat I walked the poplar trees, casting shadows on Main Street I the old bronze marker I'd seen many times before And after all these years I learned what those branches for They used to 'em here, back in the days of ole Jim Crowe
A black man I knew from high school walkin' out in chains He used to make me laugh, but now his eyes were with pain He got sellin' rock down there on MLK So the came and locked him up and took his kids away Oh, he used to seem to me Man, I wonder went wrong
I cried Dixie, go rest in peace We've got trouble here without you haunting me We buried that cross now I'm ahead So go on Dixie bother me, I'm tryin' to forget
Way yonder in the land of cotton, oh how times have changed But I wonder if the is marching on Its to be a Southern man and learn your history Cause it all comes and hits you close to home
I Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace got enough trouble here without you haunting me We buried that cross now I'm trying to a dime So go on Dixie don't me, So go on don't bother me, So go on don't bother me, Because I got the time