Passed an old home 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 Sherman's boys through They've come and us down Guess we had it
Jumped out of my pickup truck, there was in the wind Filled my soul with empty and sent a chill across my 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 it down Aww, but it do no good
I cried Goodbye Dixie, go in peace We've got enough here without you haunting me We buried that cross now we're looking So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm to forget
Drove up to the courthouse that holds the county I underneath the poplar trees, casting shadows on Main Street I read the old bronze marker I'd seen many before And after all these I learned what those branches were for They to hang 'em here, back in the days of ole Jim Crowe
A black man I knew from high came walkin' out in chains He used to make me laugh, but now his eyes were filled pain He got sellin' rock down there on MLK So the county came and locked him up and took his away Oh, he to seem alright to me Man, I what went wrong
I cried Goodbye Dixie, go in peace We've got enough trouble here you haunting me We buried that cross now I'm ahead So go on Dixie don't me, I'm tryin' to forget
Way down yonder in the land of cotton, oh how times changed But I if the truth is marching on Its hard to be a Southern man and your history Cause it all comes back and hits you to home
I cried Goodbye Dixie, go in peace We've got enough here without you haunting me We that cross now I'm trying to make a dime So go on Dixie don't me, So go on Dixie bother me, So go on Dixie don't me, Because I ain't got the