A popular song from 1919
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- I’m always losing something
Ev’ry place I go
Just why, I don’t know
And it worries me so
Last year I lost a diamond ring
That used to shine
And the other day while trav’ling
Below the Mason-Dixon line
Chorus
I lost my heart in Dixieland
Where the cotton grows
And the Swanee flows
I lingered long enough to see
That a home in Dixie
Would appeal to me
There’s something real
About the people there
They make you feel
So welcome ev’rywhere
I went out walking with a Tennessee Kid
She kissed me and the minute she did
I lost my heart in Dixieland
- I’m going back to Dixie
And look for my heart
You and I must part
I’m all ready to start
Send all my mail to Dixie
That’s where I am bound
I may stay down there forever
Because my heart may ne’er be found
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: