Are You From Dixie?

Hello there, stranger, how do you do?

There's something i'd like to say to you

Don't be surprised, you're recognized

I'm no detective but i've just surmised

You're from the place where i long to be

Your smiling face seems to say to me

You're from my own land, my sunny homeland

Tell me can it be

Are you from dixie? i said from dixie

Where the fields of cotton beckon to me

I'm glad to see you, tell me how be you

And the friends i'm longing to see

If you're from alabama, tennessee or caroline

Any place below the mason-dixon line,

Then you're from dixie, hurray for dixie

'cause i'm from dixie too

It was a way back in eighty nine

I crossed the old mason-dixon line

Gee, but i've yearned, longed to return

To all the good old pals i left behind

My home is way down in alabam'

On a plantation near birmingham,

And one thing's certain, i'm surely flirtin'

With those southbound trains