The Girl From Dixie

 

We followed a rainbow down the river

Catching cards in New Orleans

Chasing parades and waving her boa

She was every gambler's dream

Sunday mornings we'd go dancing

Down the alley and through the streets.

Soon her eyes were full of ashes

From the smoking payment beneath our feet

I was young and hard to handle

She was wild and fit to fight

So I laid blossoms about her body

As I kissed her while she slept one night

 

I fell in love with the girl from Dixie

She fell in love with the boy next door

Her momma said we were bound for trouble

Her daddy told her not to see me no more

 

I took a train to Atlantic City

'Bout the boardwalk and in the bars

I thought I had hit the big time

But the big time hit back twice as hard

I caught a bus and I rode cross country

Cross the sand and through the ice

Out to the land of gin and honey

I cut the cards and I tossed the dice

I woke up sleeping in the desert

'Neath the trembling neon lights

Pulling the petals from a flower

As I wondered where she was that night

 

I fell in love with the girl from Dixie

She fell in love with the boy next door

Her momma said we were bound for trouble

Her daddy told her not to see me no more

 

I got tired of seeing phonies

Got tired of hearing lies

I got tired of always missing

That Dixie moon shining in her eyes

I'm going back now to where I started

Going back there to lived and die

Around the world and back to Dixie

One more station, one last try

 

I fell in love with the girl from Dixie

She fell in love with the boy next door

Her momma said we were bound for trouble

Her daddy told her not to see me no more

 

©2005 / Words & Music by Patrick Weathers / Timber Sheik Songs, BMI

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