Dixie Chicken

I've seen the bright lights of Memphis, and the Commodore Hotel

and underneath the streetlamp, I met a southern belle

Well she took me to the river, where she cast her spell

and in that southern moonlight, she sang a song so well

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If you'll be my dixie chicken, I'll be your Tenessee lamb

and we can walk together down in Dixieland, down in Dixieland

Well we made all the hotspots, my money flowed like wine

and then that low-down southern whiskey, began to fog my mind

and I don't remember church bells, or the money I put down

on the white picket fence and boardwalk, of the house at the edge of town

oh but boy do I remember, the strain of her refrain

and the nights we spent together, and the way she'd call my name

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Well it's been a year since you ran away,

yes that guitar player should could play

she always liked to sing along,

she's always handy with a song

and then one night in the lobby, yeah, of the Commodore Hotel

I chanced to meet a bartender, who said he knew her well

and as he handed me a drink, he began to hum a song

and all the boys there at the bar, began to sing along

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