Corey Smith - Goodbye Dixie lyrics

[Whistling Dixie] Pa**ed an old plantation home off Hwy. 41 Been around since 1850, way before the Union come Built up on a hill, its got a 500-acre view But there ain't been no cotton there since Sherman's boys marched through They've come and burned us down Guess we had it comin' [Whistling Dixie] Jumped out of my pickup truck, there was something in the wind Filled my soul with empty and sent a chill across my skin Heard the ghost of a black man hollerin' "Blue" across the field He said "they sold my only daughter to keep that mansion on a hill" And I wanted to burn it down Aww, but it wouldn't do no good I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me We buried that cross now we're looking ahead So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm tryin' to forget Drove up to the courthouse that holds the county seat I walked underneath the poplar trees, casting shadows on Main Street I read the old bronze marker I'd seen many times before And after all these years I learned what those branches were for They used to hang 'em here, back in the days of ole Jim Crowe A black man I knew from high school came walkin' out in chains He used to make me laugh, but now his eyes were filled with pain He got busted sellin' rock down there on MLK So the county came and locked him up and took his kids away Oh, he used to seem alright to me Man, I wonder what went wrong I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me We buried that cross now I'm looking ahead So go on Dixie don't bother me, I'm tryin' to forget Way down yonder in the land of cotton, oh how times have changed But I wonder if the truth is marching on Its hard to be a Southern man and learn your history Cause it all comes back and hits you close to home I cried Goodbye Dixie, go rest in peace We've got enough trouble here without you haunting me We buried that cross now I'm trying to make a dime So go on Dixie don't bother me, So go on Dixie don't bother me, So go on Dixie don't bother me, Because I ain't got the time