Dixie Flyer Lyrics - Randy Newman

I was born right here 

November '43 

Dad was a captain in the army 

Fighting the Germans in Sicily 

My poor little mama 

Didn't know a soul in L.A. 

So we went down to the Union Station 

Made our getaway 

Got on the Dixie Flyer 

Bound for New Orleans 

Across the state of Texas 

To the land of dreams 

On the Dixie Flyer 

Bound for New Orleans 

Back to her friends and her family 

In the land of dreams 

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Her own mother came 

To meet us at the station 

Her dress as black as a crow in a coal mine 

She cried when her little girl got off the train 

Her brothers and her sisters came down from Jackson, Mississippi 

In a great green Hudson driven by a Gentile they knew 

Drinkin' rye whiskey from a flask in the backseat 

Tryin' to do like the Gentiles do 

Christ, they wanted to be Gentiles, too 

Who wouldn't down there, wouldn't you? 

An American Christian 

Goddamn 

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On the Dixie Flyer 

Bound for New Orleans 

Back to her friends and her family 

In the land of dreams 

On the Dixie Flyer 

Bound for New Orleans 

Across the state of Texas 

To the land of dreams 

Across the state of Texas 

To the land of dreams