A 1922 popular song.
Words and music by Jack Meskill, Lew Daly, and Norman Spencer.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- Down where the sugar cane’s growing
Close by that old cabin door
There, where Southern skies always smile
There I long to be all the while
Soon to my Southland I’m going
Back to those sweet days of yore
Hear me, Dixie, calling once more, Oh
Refrain
Louisian’, Louisian’
Just try and keep me out of Dixie if you can
I’d give all I own, just to be back home
Louisian’, Louisian’
I’ve been away enough for you to understand
Why my heart’s entwined
With Mason Dixon’s line
I’ve got a sweetie down that way
Sweet as sugar, say I’d walk night and day
To reach the best little nest in the U. S. A.
Louisian’, Louisian’
You’ve got the kiss I miss, that’s why I cry
Oh “Here’s my han’ Louisian’”
- Talk all you want of your city
Say what you like of its ways
Just give me the land of my birth
There I’ll find my heaven on earth
Some day when you’re down in Dixie
Stop off at old Sugar Way
I know you’ll know just why I say, Oh
Sung here by Fred Feild: