Songs of home
Front Porch Republic wants readers to submit their favorite songs that evoke memories of home. I think my favorite would be Dwight Yoakam's "I sang Dixie":
I sang Dixie as he died
The people just walked on by as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of all his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie as he died
He said way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain't near as rotten as they are
On this damned old L.A. street
Then he drew a dying breath
And laid his head against my chest
Please Lord take his soul back home to Dixie
He said listen to me son while you still can
Run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see what life here has done to me?
Then he closed those old blue eyes
And fell limp against my side
No more pain, now he's safe back home in Dixie
posted by Old Rebel @ Wednesday, August 05, 2009
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Coincidentally, I keep a stack of CD's loaded in the player on my boat. The first track on the first one is Dwight Yoakum's I Sang Dixie as He Died!
Other favorites include Alan Jackson's Small Town Southern Man and Toby Keith/Willy Nelson Whiskey for my Men/Beer for my Horses.
R M Shivers,
Small Town Southern Man is another classic, and is a contender in the Front Porch poll.
One of my all-time favorite country songs by a good ol Kentucky boy ;)
I don't know if its my favorite, but one must include Don Williams', Good Ol' Boys Like Me.
When I was a kid Uncle Remos, he put me to bed,
With a picture of Stonewall Jackson above my bed...
Goin to Carolina in my Mind
James Taylor
The Ballad of Curtis Loewe
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Blue Sky
The Allman Brothers Band
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