IRVING BERLIN lyrics - When It's Night Time In Dixie Land

[1st verse:]

Talk about your Arabian nights

I must admit they're grand

But if you long for wonderful sights

Come down to Dixie land

That's the dearest place of all

Listening to the crickets call

When the evening shadows fall

Down in Dixie land



[Refrain:]

Night time down in Dixie land

Darkies strolling hand in hand

Southern melodies

Floating on the breeze

Let me tell you it's grand

For when you hear those darkies harmonize

Tears of gladness fill your eyes

Baritones and Basses

Lounging round the places

Dixie land embraces the happiest of races

All you see is smiling faces

When it's night time in Dixie land



[2nd verse:]

Through the air float the wonderful tunes

Of Mister Whippoorwill

On the ground dance the bow-legged coons

They simply can't keep still

Vet'rans of the civil war

Telling stories by the score

How they fought in sixty-four

Down in Dixie land