There's something I'd like to say to you
Your smilin' face seems to say to me
Are you from
Where the
I'm glad to see you, tell me how
And those
Are you from
Are you from Dixie, I say from
'Cause
It was 'way back in old '89
When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line
Gee but I've yearned, longed to return,
To all those good old folks I left behind
My home is way down in old Alabam'
On a plantation near Birmingham
And there's one thing certain, I'm surely flirtin'
With those southbound trains