I Wanna Go Back to Dixie

Words and Music by Tom Lehrer

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I wan-na go back to Dix-ie Take me back to dear ol' Dix-ie, That's the
wan-na go back to Dix-ie I wan-na be a Dix - ie pix-ie And eat

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till it's of my ears. _______ I wan - na

are not for - got - ten, Whup-pin' slaves and sell - in' cot - ton, And
with South-ern gen - tle - men And put my white sheet on a -gain, I
 Where pel - lag- ra makes you scraw-ny,
Where the laws are me - di - e - val,

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