Dixie Lily Lyrics - Caribou - Elton John

Showboat coming up the river 

See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze 

I can hear the crickets singing in the evening 

Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees 

My little boat she rocks easy 

I've been catching catfish in the creek all day 

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

Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way 

Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady 

Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun 

Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing 

Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run 

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Papa says that I'm a dreamer 

Says them skeetas bit me one too many times 

Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river 

Watching old Lily leave the world behind