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Down Along The Dixie Line Chords
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I’m not entirely sure of all the words. Please add your corrections/suggestions!
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 weeds 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 are squallin’, eyeballs are ballin’
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 man
G D G
Leave the northland far behind...
C A7 G D G
...Down along the Dixie line
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I'm pretty sure the line is "catch that fireball MAIL", as in, the fast mail train...
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.