Dixie Chicken --- Lowell George

 

 

I see the [G]bright lights of Memphis, and the Commodore Ho-[D]tel.

Where underneath a streetlamp, I met a Southern [G]Belle.

She [C]took me to the river, (and) [G]there she cast her [D]spell;

Beneath that southern moonlight, she sang her song so [G]well.

 

        If you値l [G]be my Dixie chicken, I値l be your Tennessee [D]lamb;

        And we can walk together, down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

        Down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

 

[G]We made all the hot spots; my money flowed like [D]wine.

禅il low-down southern whiskey began to cloud my [G]mind.

[C]I do not re-[G]member the money I laid [D]down,

On a white picket-fenced little cottage at the outskirts of [G]town.

[C]But I do re-[G]member the strain of her re-[D]frain;

And how she cooed so softly, and how she called my [G]name.

 

        If you値l [G]be my Dixie chicken, I値l be your Tennessee [D]lamb;

        And we can walk together, down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

        Down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

 

It痴 [G]been a year since she went away, man that guitar player he could [D]play.

She was always handy with a song and loved to sing a-[G]long.

[C]Then one night in the [G]lobby of the Commodore Ho-[D]tel,

I chanced to meet a bartender who said that he knew her [G]well.

[C]And as he mixed [G]me a drink he began to hum a [D]song.

And all the boys there at the bar began to sing a-[G]long.

 

        If you値l [G]be my Dixie chicken, I値l be your Tennessee [D]lamb;

        And we can walk together, down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

        Down in [G]Dix-[Am]ie-[G]land.

 

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