Take Me Back to Dixie

Don’t take me to California,
once was enough for me
but Baby I wish you could take me 
back to Dixie
where you reached for me in your sleep
while the night moved slow
and morning found me seven stories high
without a care,
just happy to be yours


Take me with you in your heart
as you float beyond the last of forty sighs, 
and when the clouds drift by 
like cotton ‘neath my wings 
carrying me away
I’ll be wearing blue in memory of you
while my heart hums along
with a gypsy wind
wishing you could take me 
back to Dixie
again.



december 2007