Down Along The Dixie Line Chords

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Difficulty:	beginner
Capo:	2nd fret

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Capo on 2
 
 
G
Way down in Dixie, oh do they miss me
 
C                      G
Down along the Dixie line
 
G
Banjoes are strummin’, horseflies are hummin’
 
A7                 C
Ripe melons on the vine
 
    Em           G         C         A7
The gold and the gray we'd sing look away
 
    G              D       G
Way down along the Dixie line
 
 
I spent my childhood walking the wildwood
Down along the Dixie line
Freight trains a-squallin', highballs a-bawlin'
Four engines at a time
I was so happy with Momma and Pappy
Down along the Dixie line
 
 
G                            C
Can't you hear those drivers wail
 
          G                      D
Can't you see those bright rails shine
 
      G                   C
Gonna catch that fireball man
 
          G         D     G
Leave the northland far behind
 
 
[Solo over verse chords]
 
 
A river of whiskey flows down in Dixie
Down along the Dixie line
They pulled up the tracks now, I can't go back now
Can't hardly keep from crying
Oh do they miss me way down in Dixie
Down along the Dixie line
 
G                            C
Can't you hear those drivers wail
 
          G                      D
Can't you see those bright rails shine
 
      G                   C
Wanna catch that fireball mail
 
          G         D     G
Leave the northland far behind...
 
C   A7   G              D       G
      ...Down along the Dixie line
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Down Along The Dixie Line – Gillian Welch

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And up above, it's "Freight trains a-squallin', highballs a-bawlin'". The background of the song is the railroad, and the song is full of railroad references -- the "fireball mail" already noted, the shining rail and the drivers (drive wheels) on the locomotives, the freight train... And the "highball" (a term for a fast train, that gets the highball signal, the early equivalent to a green light), with its whistle "bawlin'" (like the "squallin'" whistle on the freight train). I've been a train nut for 60 years, you can trust me on this.

I'm pretty sure the line is "catch that fireball MAIL", as in, the fast mail train...

Isn't it "The Gold and the Gray, we'd sing look away" - a reference to the confederate colors and the song "Look Away, Dixieland"?