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by Randy Newman


Dixie Flyer  

Intro:       (2X)            

                              
I was born right here,        November '43
				                             
My dad was a captain in the army fighting the germans in Sicily.
                                  
My poor little momma       didn't know a soul in L.A.
                                                   
So we went down to the union station and made our getaway.

Chorus:
                                             
Got on the dixie flyer bound for New Orleans
                                      
Across the state of Texas to the land of dreams.
                                              
On the dixie flyer bound for New Orleans
                                                
Back to her friends and her family in the land of dreams.

                   
Her own mother came to meet us at the station,
                    
Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine
                                          
She cried when her little girl got off the train.

                               
Her brothers and her sisters drove down from Jackson, Mississippi
                                
In a great green hudson driven by a gentile they knew.
                                     
Drinkin' rye whiskey from a flask in the back seat
                             
Tryin' to do like the gentiles do
                                  
Christ, they wanted to be gentiles, too.
                                
Who wouldn't down there, wouldn't you?
                     
An american christian, god damn!

Chorus



by: José Duarte