There's something I'd like to say to you Your smilin' face seems to say to me Are you from Where the I'm glad to see you, tell me how And those Are you from Are you from Dixie, I say from 'Cause It was 'way back in old '89 When first I crossed that Mason Dixon Line Gee but I've yearned, longed to return, To all those good old folks I left behind My home is way down in old Alabam' On a plantation near Birmingham And there's one thing certain, I'm surely flirtin' With those southbound trains