Hello there stranger how do you do there's something I'd like to say to you You seem surprised I 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 my 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 I'll be you and the friend 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 It was a way back in old '89 When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line Gee but again I long to return To those good old folks I left behind My home was way down in old Alabam' On the plantation near Birmingham and there's one thing certain I'm surely flirtin' With those southbound trains