STRICTLY FROM DIXIE
Cavanaugh / Webb / Brooks / Brooks

as rec by Ella Fitzgerald & her Savoy Eight  1938


I didn't get my Dixie drawl
A-drinking out of a Dixie cup,
Yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!
And when I say, "I loves you all!",
It's meant to be on the up and up,
Yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!

When I came up from the south,
I felt so down in the mouth;
Then I took one look at you
And thought about Dixie eyes of blue,
I thought about sweet magnolias too!

I never miss a Cotton Ball,
I like my julips a trifle tall,
Yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!

Oh, I didn't get my Dixie drawl
A-drinking out of a Dixie cup,
Yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!
And when I say, "I loves you all!",
It's meant to be on the up and up,
Ye-ye-ye-yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!

When I came up from the south,
I felt so down in the mouth;
Then I took one look at you
And thought about Dixie eyes of blue,
I thought about sweet magnolias too!

I never miss a Cotton Ball,
I like my julips a trifle tall,
Yes sir. I'm strictly from Dixie!
Good old Dixie,
Mellow Dixie,
I'm strictly from Dixie, Dixie, Dixie!






(Contributed by Peter Akers - April 2009)