A popular song from 1917.
Words and Music by Irving Berlin.
Cover Art by Albert W. Barbelle.
Copyright ©5 May 1917.
Sheet Music from the collection of Michael Deatz.
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- When I left the old folks
Down in Dixieland
From that very moment
I could understand
Why they put two I’s in Dixie
When they spell that word
Here’s the simple reason
It’s the best you’ve ever heard
Chorus:
There are two I’s in Dixie
D-I-X-I-E
Two eyes in Dixie
Always watching me
And while I’m straying
By day and night
They keep on saying
“Turn to the right”
Makes no diff’rence where I wander
Or where I happen to be
I simply can’t go wrong
Because the whole day long
There are two eyes in Dixie watching me
- Every night you’ll find me
With a pen in hand
Writing them a letter
Down in Dixieland
I can see two eyes in Dixie
Reading what I write
And I ask their blessing
When I say my pray’rs each night
Sung by Laurence Rubenstein: