Down in Dixie County Songtext
von Chris Rosser

The oak leaves are rustling
The morning shivers cold
Dogs bark at nothing
And roosters start to crow
Guilty eyes roll over
And pull covers to their heads
It′s dawn in Dixie county
No one's walking but the dead

The boy should have known better
I heard my mama say
Down here things are different
And she threw the newspaper away
"Three Deputies Arrested"
Was all the headlines read
It′s dawn in Dixie county
No one's walking but the dead


They say he drove from somewhere north
A white woman by his side
To visit a cousin
Below the Mason-Dixon line
As the morning light was breaking
They dragged him from his bed
It's dawn in Dixie county
No one′s walking but the dead

The jury said "Not guilty"
And the whole courthouse cheered
The deputies were set free
The evidence disappeared
I wondered about the verdict
If God were judge instead
It′s dawn in Dixie county
No one's walking but the dead
It′s dawn in Dixie county
No one's walking but the dead