Dixie Flyer
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I was born right here, November '43
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My dad was a captain in the army fighting the germans in Sicily.
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My poor little momma didn't know a soul in L.A.
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So we went down to the union station and made our getaway.
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Got on the dixie flyer bound for New Orleans
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Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.
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On the dixie flyer bound for New Orleans
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Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams.
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Her own mother came to meet us at the station,
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Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine
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She cried when her little girl got off the train.
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Her brothers and her sisters drove down from Jackson, Mississippi
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In a great green hudson driven by a gentile they knew.
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Drinkin' rye whiskey from a flask in the back seat
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Tryin' to do like the gentiles do
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Christ, they wanted to be gentiles, too.
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Who wouldn't down there, wouldn't you?
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An american christian, god damn!
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