Are You From Dixie?

DESCRIPTION: "Hello there,, stranger, how do you do? There's something I'd like to say to you." Based on appearances, the singer thinks they are from the same place: "Are you from Dixie? I said from Dixie... 'Cause I'm from Dixie too." He wishes he were back south
AUTHOR: Words: Jack Yellen / Music: George I. Cobb (source: sheet music)
EARLIEST DATE: 1915 (copyright)
KEYWORDS: travel home | Dixie
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
ADDITIONAL: John Burke, _Burke's Christmas Songster 1918_, Herald Print, 1918 (PDF available on the Memorial University of Newfoundland site), p. 10, "Are You from Dixie?" (1 text)
Roud #10083
RECORDINGS:
The Blue Sky Boys, "Are You From Dixie?" (Bluebird 8294)
SAME TUNE:
The Song of the Hun (File: WJL026A)
NOTES [57 words]: Edward Foote Gardner, Popular Songs of the Twentieth Century: Volume I -- Chart Detail & Encyclopedia 1900-1949, Paragon House, 2000, p. 311, estimates that this was the twenty-second most popular song in America in 1916, peaking at #6 in May 1916 (#1 for the year being Gus Kahn, Tony Jackson, and Egbert van Alstyne's "Pretty Baby"). - RBW
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