Tom Lehrer - I Wanna Go Back To Dixie

Tom Lehrer Revisited / 1960-07-01 1. The Wild West Is Where I Want To Be 2. The Hunting Song 3. Fight Fiercely, Harvard! 4. When You Are Old And Gray 5. Be Prepared 6. I Hold Your Hand In Mine 7. Lobachevsky 8. The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz 9. My Home Town 10. The Old Dope Peddler 11. The Irish Ballad 12. I Wanna Go Back To Dixie

I Wanna Go Back To Dixie

I wanna go back to Dixie,
Take me back to dear ol' Dixie,
That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me.
Ol' times there are not forgotten,
Whuppin' slaves and pickin' cotton,
And waitin' for the Robert E. Lee.
(It was never there on time.)
I'll go back to the Swanee,
Where pellagra makes you scrawny,
And the jasmine and the tear gas smell just fine
I really am a-fixin'
To go home and start a-mixin'
Down below that Mason-Dixon line.

Oh, poll tax, how I love ya, how I love ya,
My dear old poll tax.

Won'tcha come with me to Alabammy,
Back to the arms of my dear ol' Mammy,
Her cookin's lousy and her hands are clammy,
But what the hell, it's home.
Yes, for paradise the Southland is my nominee.
Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy.

I wanna go back to Dixie
I wanna be a dixie pixie
And eat cornpone 'til it's comin' outta my ears
I wanna talk with Southern gentlemen
And put my white sheet on again,
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years.
The land of the boll weevil,
Where the laws are medieval,
Is callin' me to come and evermore roam.
I wanna go back to the Southland,
That "y'all" and "shet-ma-mouth" land,
Be it ever so decadent,
There's no place like home.