Dixie Lily

Showboat comin' up the river

See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze

I can hear the crickets singin' in the evenin'

Old Dixie Lily movin' past the cypress trees

My little boat she rocks easy

I've been catchin' the catfish in the creek all day

Oh, and I've never seen ladies like those on the big boats

Must be fancy breedin' lets you live that way

Dixie Lily, chuggin' like a grand old lady

Paddles hittin' home in the noonday sun

Ploughin' through the water with your whistles blowin'

Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Papa says that I'm a dreamer

Says them mosquitos bit me one too many times

Oh, but I never get lonesome livin' on the river

Watchin' old Lily leave the world behind

Dixie Lily, chuggin' like a grand old lady

Paddles hittin' home in the noonday sun

Ploughin' through the water with your whistles blowin'

Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Oh, Dixie Lily, chuggin' like a grand old lady

Paddles hittin' home in the noonday sun

Ploughin' through the water with your whistles blowin'

Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Oh, down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run