Lowell George - Dixie Chicken

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[Verse 1]
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I've seen the bright lights of Memphis
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And the Commodore Hotel
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And underneath a street lamp I met a Southern belle
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Where she took me to the river where she cast her spell
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And in that Southern moonlight she sang a song so well

[Chorus]
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If you'll be my dixie chicken
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I'll be your Tenessee lamb
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And we can walk together down in dixieland

Down in dixieland

[Verse 2]
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Well we made all the hot spots. My money flowed like wine
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Then that low down Southern whiskey began to fog my mind
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And I don't remember church bells or the money I put down
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On the white picket fence and boardwalk of the house at the edge of town
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But boy do I remember the strain of her refrain
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The nights we spent together, and the way she called my name

[Chorus]
          A
If you'll be my dixie chicken
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I'll be your Tenessee lamb
                                 A
And we can walk together down in dixieland

Down in dixieland

[Verse 3]
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Well it's been a year since she ran away
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Yes that guitar player sure could play

She always liked to sing along
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She's always handy with a song
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Then one night in the lobby of the Commodore Hotel
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I chanced to meet a bartender who said he knew her well
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And as he handed me a drink he began to hum a song
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And all the boys there, at the bar, began to sign along

[Chorus]
          A
If you'll be my dixie chicken
                          E7
I'll be your Tenessee lamb
                                 A
And we can walk together down in dixieland

Down in dixieland