Someone Play Dixie For Me

C G7 C C In the year '64 we were fighting a war G7 For a reason that we hardly knew C Many tears had been shed, many loved ones left dead G7 C In the fight 'tween the gray and the blue C I recall that a lad to his mother and dad G7 Said goodbye at the old garden gate C Then I heard Mother say, "Son, we'll watch and we'll pray G7 C If it takes you forever, we'll wait" F C If they carry me back on that long southern track G7 I hope you will answer my plea C F C When they lower me down in that sweet Georgia ground G7 C Have someone play Dixie for me C G7 C C Then the years slowly passed till a letter at last G7 From his captain had finally come forth C Oh, the one that you yearn he will never return G7 C Lord, he's died in a camp way up north F C If they carry me back on that long southern track G7 I hope you will answer my plea C F C When they lower me down in that sweet Georgia ground G7 C Have someone play Dixie for me C G7 2x C C* C* With a rose on his chest, we fulfilled his last request C* G7 What God gave, He now taken away C With his battles now won, lord, his song it was sung G7 C While the tune to sweet Dixie did play F C If they carry me back on that long southern track G7 I hope you will answer my plea C F C When they lower me down in that sweet Georgia ground G7 C Have someone play Dixie for me C* G7 When they lower me down in that sweet Georgia ground C G7 C G7 C Have someone play Dixie for me