Dixie

from Songs of the Civil War
Compiled by Irwin Silber

"Dixie's Land"
(1860)
Written and composed expressly for
Bryant's Minstrels
by Daniel Decatur Emmett.

C                    
I wish I was in the land of cotton,
F
Old times there are not forgotten,
     C                     G7           C
look away, look away, look away, Dixie land. 
C
In Dixie Land where I was born in, 
F
Early on one frosty mornin' 
     C                     G7           C
look away, look away, look away, Dixie land. 
C               F         D7      G7
I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray!
   C                F
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand 
    C       D7     G7
to live and die in Dixie,
 C     G7     C         
Away, away, Away down south in Dixie,
       Dm     A7        D7    G7  C
Away, away, Away down south in Dixie!