Title

When it's Night Time Down in Dixieland / music by Irving Berlin; words by Irving Berlin

Authors

Irving Berlin
Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)

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ISBN

MUM00682, 0146

Description

Cover: drawing of rural African Americans gathered next to a log cabin at night, while a banjo and fiddle are played; photo inset of Val Harris and Jack Manion (see 550); Publisher: Waterson Berlin and Snyder Co. (New York)

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Songs -- United States -- 20th Century; Popular Music -- United States

Relational Format

music score

Original Format

scores

Original Collection

Sheldon Harris Collection (MUM00682), Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Finding Aid

https://egrove.olemiss.edu/finding_aids/322

Lyrics

Lyrics:
First verse
Talk about your arabian nights I must admit they're grand But if you long for wonderful night 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.
Chorus
Nighttime 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 Tear 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. Nighttime down in Dixieland, 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 Tear 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.
Second verse
Through the air float the wonderful tunes of mister whippoorwill On the ground dance the bowlegged 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.
(Chorus)

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