Grandpa Jones — Are You From Dixie?

Grand Ole Opry, 1961.
Written by Jack Yellen and George L. Cobb.

LYRICS

Hello there, stranger, how do you do?
There's something I'd like to say to you.
You seem surprised, I recognize;
I'm no detective, but I just surmise

You're from the place I'm longing to be.
Your smiling face seems to say to me:
You're from my homeland, my sunny homeland!
Tell me, can it be?

It was a way back in old '89
When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line.
Gee, but again I long to return
To those good old folks I left behind.

My home was way down in old Alabam',
On the plantation near Birmingham;
And there's one thing certain, I'm surely flirtin'
With those southbound trains.

CHORUS
Are you from Dixie?
I say, from Dixie,
Where the fields of cotton beckon to me?
I'm glad to see you.
Tell me, how be you,
And the friend I'm longing to see?
Are you from Alabama, Tennessee, or Caroline,
Any place below the Mason Dixon Line
Are you from Dixie?
I say, from Dixie,
'Cause I'm from Dixie, too!