Chords for While The Band Is Playing Dixie

_ _ You see here standing on your left is a Aussie North Carolina, and he's been playing music
for _ days now, and _ he has recorded two CDs, both of [Gb] them, Italian songs. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Abm] His name is Dennis Cash, [N] and he's going to sing a song from his newest CD, which he does
not have copies of yet, but _ _ _ _ _ _ _ it's one of the songs I'm going to suggest [Gb] to you, but I'm
not sure where he has them.
It's a [C] song that Sarah and Maybel did on [Ab] their historic reunion album on the Columbia session
with Joe St.
[Gb] Fais, and I'm writing a census off of this album, so I'll put it in here
that he and some of the boys in this class are 60 years old now.
Paul, one of the band is playing a picture with you.
Welcome, Dennis Cash, please.
[Ab] Thank you so much.
Bill, if I may, may I take just a second and talk?
Because I'm not back for all this day, so it's okay [Ab] if I talk for a second.
Is it okay if I talk for just a second before I sing?
I am [E] absolutely thrilled to be here.
There's two places in my life, and Bill's right, I've been playing, I'll be 60 years
old, so I've been playing a big part of it.
There's two places in [Ab] my life that I haven't played, and I've always wanted to play.
This is one.
[F] This is a dream for me, and I mean that [Gb] with everything that's in my heart. _
I'm so excited to be here.
[Eb] _ I hope I can do this song justice.
I don't get nervous very often, but I'm nervous [Ab] tonight.
I'm standing here with one of my idols, singing on the stage [Gb] of my idols, so I'm nervous.
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It was on a day when social [C] norms were lying below the [D] wall.
Mother, why do we march [G] far away? _
When the fair-haired boys have dreamed of [C] a far-off, sunny town.
[D] Of dark-eyed men who wait each day.
[G] _ _ While the band is playing, they sing, [C] I'm coming home, sweet home.
It [D]
takes me back to Georgia, though I'm far [G] from home. _
Once again, inside the river, I'm [C] married, here I roam.
While the [D] band is playing, they sing, I'm coming home, sweet home.
_ _ [C] Being ever [G] so _ humble, _ [D] _ I'm just [G] like home.
_ [C] Being ever [G] so humble, _ _ [D] _ I'm [G] just like home. _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ On that night, it was all sweet, and [C] came a beautiful draw.
_ [D] With a flag in my eyes, he plunged into [G] the grave.
And my mother, who did this life [C] all for a flag, she loved him.
[D] Was a boy that dreamed of Dixie far [G] away.
While the band is playing, they sing, [C] I'm coming home, sweet home.
[D] It takes me back to Georgia, though I'm far from home.
[G] _ _ Once again, inside the river, I'm [C] married, here I roam.
While the band _ is playing, they sing, I'm coming home, [G] sweet home.
[C] Being _ _ _ [G] _ ever so _
[D] _ _ humble, I'm just [G] like home. _
[C] Being ever _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ so humble, I'm just [G] like home. _
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[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ When found in his pocket, [C] there was a space of a number.
[D] A bullet hole that pierced through [G] and through. _ _ _
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While the _ [G] _ band _ _
_ _ _ [C] _ is _ [D] _
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_ [D] playing, they sing, I'm coming home, sweet [G] home.
_ [C] Being ever so [G] _ humble, _ [D] _ _ [G] I'm just like home.
_ [C] Being ever so humble, I'm just like home. _ _
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