A popular song from 1915.
Words by Jack Mahoney.
Music by Percy Wenrich.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
I’m standing in the old peach orchard, Dixie
Where the rose played hide and seek
With the peach-bloom in your cheek
The blossoms left the trees just as we parted
And to me every day seems a week
Oh, how I yearn for your return
I want you near me, to hear me and cheer me
The love light in your eyes will ever shine, dear
In the orchard, way down in my heart
CHORUS
Won’t you come back, Dixie
Bring back the sunshine that you took away with you
All the world seems dreary
Without you, dearie, I am lonely for you only
Down in the land of cotton
You’re not forgotten
The springtime is calling for you
We will love each other, like dad and mother
Come back, Dixie, Dixie, do
2. In dreams again we wander through the wildwood
Where the orioles would throng
‘Mid magnolias all day long
Your face is mirrored in the silent river
And the brook seems to ripple your song
Down in my heart memories start
With recollections of that old affection
My dreaming seems to bring sweet consolation
And some day every dream will come true