From the 1909 musical show “Mr. Lode of Koal”
words by Alex Rogers
music by Bert A. Williams
The sheet music:
Accompaniment:
Lyrics
- Summertime in Dixieland
The birds are singing sweet
On almost every bush and tree
There’s something good to eat
Every day is mighty lonesome
When you have to go to school
But its fine when you are wading
In the brook so clear and cool
You forget ’bout home and Mammy
‘Till you hear her call your name
It’s then the same old willow switches
And your little songs the same
Chorus
But those bygone days in Dixie
They were sweet old days
And those quaint old ways in Dixie
They were dear old ways
When Mammy talked of hard times
And how she had to squeeze
And pinch and save and struggle
So that we could live at ease
We kids we didn’t care
We thought that money grew on trees
In those by-gone days in Dixie
Those by-gone days in Dixie
- Wintertime in Dixieland
Flowers all hid away
The robin red breast and his mate
They haven’t much to say
Every evening just at twilight
When our supper is all done
We all gather by the fireside
Knowing there will be some fun
Dad would tell ’bout Jack O’ Lantern
And what Santa Claus had said
And how the Boogie man would catch us
If we didn’t run to bed
Sung here by Fred Feild: