well there s a peach tree on a hill in northern georgia where a teenage boy sits staring at the ground soon he ll leave to join the rebel soldiers for the cumberland and nashville he is bound he goes down to ride with the bedford forrest calv ry he can shoot a man at a hunnert yards or more but he knows he s just like any other soldier if they spill his blood he ll never ride no more don t you know i m just a lonesome boy from dixie help me lord i feel so all alone don t you know i m a lonesome boy from dixie gone to war and i just want to get home when the battle started the rebels were outnumbered they shot his leg with an angry cannonball the medic came and said we ll all be lucky if the boy from georgia makes it home at all don t you know i m just a lonesome boy from dixie help me lord i feel so all alone don t you know i m a lonesome boy from dixie gone to war and i just want to get home well there s a peach tree on a hill in northern georgia where a horse stands like a statue made of stone flowers bless a grave down in the meadow now the lonesome boy from dixie made it home don t you know i m just a lonesome boy from dixie help me lord i feel so all alone don t you know i m a lonesome boy from dixie gone to war and i just want to get home