hello there stranger how do you do there s something i d like to say to you now don t be surprised you re recognized i m no detective but i ve just surmised you re from the place where i long to be your smiling face seems to say to me you re from my own land my sunny homeland tell me can it be that you from dixie i said from dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me i m glad to see you tell me how be you and the friends i m longing to see are you from alabama tennessee or caroline any place below the mason dixon line oh you re from dixie i said from dixie cause i m from dixie too it was a way back in eighty nine i crossed that old mason dixon line gee but i ve yearned longed to return to that ole place that i left behind my home is way down in alerbam on a plantation near birmingham there s one thing s certain i m always flirtin with those southbound trains that run to dixie i said to dixie where the fields of cotton beckon to me i m glad to see you tell me how be you and the friends i m longing to see are you from alabama tennessee or caroline any place below the mason dixon line oh you re from dixie i said from dixie cause i m from dixie too 