Misc Traditional – Dixie (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Trad. / Daniel Decatur Emmett Tabbed by: maguri "Dixie", also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land", and other titles, is a popular American song. It is one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century, and probably the best-known song to have come out of blackface minstrelsy. Although not a folk song at its creation, "Dixie" has since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a toponym for the Southern United States. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_%28song%29#Lyrics] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] | C | % | F | % | | C | % | G | C | [Verse]
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I wish I was in the land of cotton

F
Old times there are not forgotten,

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Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land
[Verse]
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In Dixie Land where I was born in

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Early on a frosty mornin',

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Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land
[Chorus]
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I wish I was in Dixie, hooray! hooray!

   C               F
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand 

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To live and die in Dixie,

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Away, away, away down South in Dixie,

 C     G     C        G        C
Away, away, away down South in Dixie
[Interlude] | C | % | F | % | | C | % | G | C | [Verse]
        C
There's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,

F
Makes you fat or a little fatter.

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Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land
[Verse]
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Then hoe it down and scratch your gravel,

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To Dixie's Land I'm bound to travel.

     C                     G          C
Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land
[Chorus]
  C             F       D     G
I wish I was in Dixie, away! away!

   C               F
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand 

   C               G
To live and die in Dixie,

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Away, away, away down South in Dixie,

 C     G     C        G        C
Away, away, away down South in Dixie