I Sang Dixie

"I Sang Dixie" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It was released in October 1988 as the second single from his album Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room. In 1989, "I Sang Dixie" went to number one on the US Country chart.^[1]

Content

The song's narrator describes meeting a man from the southern United States dying on a street in Los Angeles. The narrator, while crying, holds the man and sings 'Dixie' to comfort him as he dies. He goes on to describe how others "walk on by" ignoring the man's suffering. The dying man warns the narrator with his final words to "run back home to that southern land" and escape "what life here has done to me".

Chart performance

Chart (1988–1989)	Peak position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[2]	1

Year-end charts

Chart (1989)	Position
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)^[3]	6
US Country Songs (Billboard)^[4]	23

Preceded by "Big Wheels in the Moonlight" by Dan Seals	Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single February 25, 1989	Succeeded by "I Still Believe in You" by The Desert Rose Band

Demo version

Yoakam originally recorded a demo version of the song in 1981. It can be found on his 2002 boxed set, Reprise Please, Baby and on the 2004 compilation, Dwight's Used Records.

References

↑ Whitburn, Joel (2004). The Billboard Book Of Top 40 Country Hits: 1944-2006, Second edition. Record Research. p. 403.
↑ "Dwight Yoakam – Chart history" Billboard Hot Country Songs for Dwight Yoakam.
↑ "RPM Top 100 Country Tracks of 1989". RPM. December 23, 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.
↑ "Best of 1989: Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 1989. Retrieved August 28, 2013.

External links

Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics

Dwight Yoakam singles

Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.	"Honky-Tonk Man" "Guitars, Cadillacs" "It Won't Hurt"

Hillbilly Deluxe	"Little Sister" "Little Ways" "Please, Please Baby" "Always Late with Your Kisses"

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room	"Streets of Bakersfield" (With Buck Owens) "I Sang Dixie" "I Got You" "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)"

Just Lookin' for a Hit	"Long White Cadillac"

If There Was a Way	"Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" "You're the One" "Nothing's Changed Here" "It Only Hurts When I Cry" "The Heart That You Own" "Send a Message to My Heart" (With Patty Loveless)

Honeymoon in Vegas Soundtrack	"Suspicious Minds"

This Time	"Ain't That Lonely Yet" "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" "Fast as You" "Try Not to Look So Pretty" "Pocket of a Clown"

Gone	"Nothing" "Gone (That'll Be Me)" "Sorry You Asked?" "Heart of Stone"

Under the Covers	"Claudette" "Baby Don't Go" (With Sheryl Crow)

A Long Way Home	"Things Change" "These Arms"

Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's	"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" "Thinking About Leaving"

Tomorrow's Sounds Today	"What Do You Know About Love" "I Want You to Want Me" "I Was There" (With Buck Owens)

Inside Traxx 2002	"Sitting Pretty"

Population Me	"The Back of Your Hand" "The Late Great Golden State"

Blame the Vain	"Intentional Heartache" "Blame the Vain" "I Wanna Love Again"

Dwight Sings Buck	"Close Up the Honky Tonks"

TBD	"Who'll Stop the Rain"

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