When I was a little girl in Dixie
I used to chase the fireflies
Then I grew up and started chasing the guys

Teenage romance what just the thing
Till I got in a family way
Now mama only working in a cheap cafe


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Waiting on tables and passing myself around

Dixie girl, you're the small talk
In a small talking town
I fall in love every day with someone

Who ends up just driving away
While I dreaming I with him
Going down that west bound highway


One night a man walks in and smiles
And orders coffee black

Took me for a ride in his brand new cadillac
Told me he loved me with all his heart
I told him I loved him too

He said goodbye Dixie, I'll be back for you

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Now all I do is read those
Hollywood photograph magazines

Work my shifts for tips
And live alone in my dreams
I'm a Dixie girl who prays

Some day she'll be a Delta queen
Find a good man,
Who'll raise me and my baby


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