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