I Sang Dixie

I Sang Dixie - Dwight Yoakam

I sang Dixie as he died

The people just walked on by as I cried

The bottle had robbed him

All his rebel pride

So I sang Dixie as he died

He said Way down yonder in the land of cotton

Old times there ain't near

As rotten as they are

On this damned old LA street

Then he drew a dying breath

Laid his head against my chest

Please Lord

Take his soul back home to Dixie

I sang Dixie as he died

The people just walked on by as I cried

The bottle had robbed him

All his rebel pride

So I sang Dixie as he died

He said

Listen to me

Son while you still can

Run back home to that Southern land

Don't you see what life here has done to me

Then he closed those old blue eyes

And fell limp against my side

No more pain

And now he's safe back home in Dixie

I sang Dixie as he died

People just walked on by as I cried

The bottle had robbed him

Of all his rebel pride

So I sang Dixie as he died

I sang Dixie as he died