Lyrics

VERSE 1
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 Tennessee lamb
and we can walk together down in Dixieland, down in Dixieland

VERSE 2
We hit all the hotspots, my money flowed like wine
then that low-down southern whiskey, began to fog my mind
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 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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VERSE 3
It's been a year since you ran away, yes that guitar player could play
she always liked to sing along, she's always handy with a song
and then one night in the lobby, 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

CHORUS
If you'll be my Dixie chicken, I'll be your Tennessee lamb
and we can walk together down in Dixieland, down in Dixieland, down in Dixieland