Hello there stranger how do you do

There's something I'd like to say to you

Now don't be surprised you 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

Sunny homeland

Tell me can it be

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 those friends

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

Well

It was away back in 89

I crossed

That old mason Dixon line

Gee but I've yearned

Longed to return

To those old places

That I left behind

My home is way down in Alabama

On a plantation near Birmingham

And there's one thing certain

I'm always flirting

With those southbound trains

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 those friends

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