I Wanna Go Back To Dixie chords by Tom Lehrer

Chords with lyrics

I Wanna Go Back to Dixie
by Tom Lehrer

F7F7 Bb majorBb    F7F7   Bb majorBb
I wanna go back to dixie,
Bb7Bb7   Eb MajorEb
Take me back to dear ol' dixie,
EdimEdim    Bb majorBb  F minorFm    G7G7         C7C7
That's the only li'l ol' place for li'l ol' me.
F7F7    Bb majorBb        Bb7Bb7
Ol' times there are not for-gotten,
     Eb MajorEb
Whoppin' slaves and sellin' cotton,
EdimEdim Bb majorBb       C7C7      F7F7
And  waitin' for the robert E. Lee.

spoken - (it was never there on time.)
   Bb majorBb
I'll go back to the swanee,
     Bb7Bb7
Where pel-lagra makes you scrawny,
    Eb MajorEb               Gb/E Bb majorBb BdimBdim F7F7
And the jasmine and the tear gas spell just fine.
 Bb majorBb  BbdimBbdim F7F7
I really am a-fixin'
   Bb majorBb    Fm6Fm6     G7G7
To go back where there's no mixin'
   C7C7        F7F7  Bb majorBb  F7F7
Down below that mason-dixon line.

C majorC     C majorC       C majorC
Poll Tax. How I love ya, How I love ya.
C7C7       C majorC
My Dear Ole Poll Tax


(SPOKEN)
     Bb majorBb    Bb7Bb7  Eb MajorEb EbmEbm
Won'tcha come with me to alabammy,
   Bb majorBb   Bb7Bb7    Eb MajorEb    EbmEbm
Back to the arms of my dear ol' mammy,
  Bb majorBb    Bb7Bb7      Eb MajorEb    EbmEbm
Her cookin's lousy and her hands are clammy,
  Bb majorBb    F7F7     Bb majorBb
But what the hell, it's home.

        F7F7      FdimFdim      F7F7
SUNG - Yes, for paradise the southland is my nominee.
     F7F7      FdimFdim     F7F7
Jes' give me a ham hock and a grit of hominy.

F7F7 Bb majorBb  F7F7   Bb majorBb
I wanna start relaxin'
Bb7Bb7   Eb MajorEb
Down in Birmingham or Jackson.
EdimEdim Bb majorBb    F minorFm    G7G7    C7C7  F7F7
And have some fun while no one interferes
    Bb majorBb         Bb7Bb7
I wanna talk with southern gentlemen
  Eb MajorEb            EdimEdim
And put my white sheet on again,
 Bb majorBb         C7C7        F7F7
I ain't seen one good lynchin' in years.
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The land of the boll weevil,
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Where the laws are medieval,
  Eb MajorEb             Gb/E Bb majorBb BdimBdim F7F7
Is callin' me to come and nevermore roam.
    Bb majorBb   BdimBdim  F7F7
I wanna go back to the southland,
    Bb majorBb     BdimBdim  F7F7
That "y'all" and "shut-my-mouth" land,
Bb majorBb F7F7 Bb majorBb F7/Bb
Be it e--ver
Bb majorBb  AbAb G7G7
so dec-a-dent,
    C7C7 F7F7     Bb majorBb F7F7 Bb majorBb
There's no place like home.