Goodbye Dixie Lyrics - Corey Smith

(Whistling Dixie) 

Passed an old plantation home off Hwy. 41 

Been around since 1850, way before the Union come 

Built up on a hill, its got a 500-acre view 

But there ain't been no cotton there since Sherman's boys marched through 

They've come and burned us down 

Guess we had it comin' 

(Whistling Dixie) 

Jumped out of my pickup truck, there was something in the wind 

Filled my soul with empty and sent a chill across my skin 

Heard the ghost of a black man hollerin' "Blue" across the field 

He said "they sold my only daughter to keep that mansion on a hill" 

And I wanted to burn it down 

Aww, but it wouldn't do no good 

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I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace 

We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me 

We buried that cross now we're looking ahead 

So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm tryin' to forget 

Drove up to the courthouse that holds the county seat 

I walked underneath the poplar trees, casting shadows on Main Street 

I read the old bronze marker I'd seen many times before 

And after all these years I learned what those branches were for 

They used to hang 'em here, back in the days of ole Jim Crowe 

A black man I knew from high school came walkin' out in chains 

He used to make me laugh, but now his eyes were filled with pain 

He got busted sellin' rock down there on MLK 

So the county came and locked him up and took his kids away 

Oh, he used to seem alright to me 

Man, I wonder what went wrong 

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I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace 

We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me 

We buried that cross now I'm looking ahead 

So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm tryin' to forget 

Way down yonder in the land of cotton, oh how times have changed 

But I wonder if the truth is marching on 

Its hard to be a Southern man and learn your history 

Cause it all comes back and hits you close to home 

I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace 

We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me 

We buried that cross now I'm trying to make a dime 

So go on Dixie don't bother me, 

So go on Dixie don't bother me, 

So go on Dixie don't bother me, 

Because I ain't got the time