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 The race in Dix 
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 BY R .P. rOliTKlL 
 
 Gum? a]' L-.'M'i ;j: ■• pie groat und Small, 
 
 Let's sina . diil befal 
 
 r . Ymi — tilt Yin, —the Yankee men in D 
 01 ' ' if, in p'uun mi i' 
 
 Derlaied to Riul.nn in i lie would 
 
 Ami have — nnil l.ivi; — n'nil lime a rac in ' 
 Let's inarch away to Dixie, 
 A way I A way ! 
 Tin' rebel band shall leave the land, 
 Thai ? ithered down in Dixie, 
 Away I a way I 
 Let's sob ili ■ race in Dlxii . 
 
 Fmni Washington, nh. glorious I. nl 
 The Yankee gills and men did run 
 
 To >,,. ,._t,, „.,._:,, see the race in Dixie, 
 And tome they went with banm i ■ fine, 
 ome they uai i ied uakeS mid w ine, 
 Tn mi — t" eat— to eal and di nk lb Dixie. 
 Let's march, they cried, lu Dixie, 
 A» ay ! A way 1 
 Oh, sadly they did rue thi day 
 They wenl w itli ai ins and flags so gay, 
 Away I Away I 
 To i u 
 
 Ola Lincoln 91 ni young Bod hJ* son, 
 
 And all his < ■ Bull K in, 
 
 •■ — to sec — tu see Che race in Dixie, 
 Mi' 9. W il '"ii md Ikv pap were ihere, 
 Ami sweet " . marched in tlie rear. 
 
 To plan 1 — tophi il mi tlie stripes in Dixie. 
 
 Away I \ I I for Dixie! 
 Av !,, I A win 1 
 
 1 III ; they'll Tii-ver fight, 
 
 The rebel to flight, 
 
 Away ! Aw,,\ I 
 Well ru.i them out o( Dixiel 
 
 They planted cannon "n the hill. 
 In hope mud) rebel blood to spill. 
 
 An.;. A u jv away down there in Dixie. 
 Bm b ' m, true, 
 
 k Ami Bm low, B Bnd iei -. too 
 
 Were there — were Cere — were there to f gin for 
 Li. xu — 
 
 •• Let'd Bgft," i. ' lor Dixie." 
 
 A way I Away I 
 A lyranl band invades our Ian 1, 
 Ou Dixie let us take out i-taud, 
 Hurrah I Hurrah! 
 We 1 live ami die in Dixie. 
 
 Before the setting of the sun. 
 Thai noble battle il was wen 
 
 l!v Sou— by Son — by Southern boys .it Dixie. 
 Oli [huuaofids who, at morning light, 
 Had marched so piomliy 10 (he Bjr/it, 
 
 Were K —were ly— were lying dead o« Dixie. 
 Ob 1 lar away in Dixie. 
 Away I Away I 
 Tin 11 men of might, that bloody night, 
 Who were not slain, all t"ok to flight, 
 Away I Away I 
 And ran away from Dixie. 
 
 And South Carolina, she was there, 
 
 Willi Georgia boys the fa to share, 
 
 Of stan — of Stan — ol standing last by Dixie.; 
 And Alabama t. v the side 
 Ol Louisiana, poured b tide 
 01 ii ee "i free — ol freemen's blood lor Dixie. 
 Iluii ,ih I Hurrah I tor Dixie, 
 A way ' A way I 
 For sons "who died that glorious day I 
 Old fathers with their lodes so grey, 
 A way 1 A way I 
 Ai.. .•..me to ti<-bt for Dixie. 
 
 Let millions of the Hessians come, 
 At bugle sound and roll of drum, 
 
 We'll ,i,l — we'll ml— we'll rally all Cor Dixie. 
 For wives and children, homes and friends, 
 He nobly dies who these defends, 
 Awayl Away! far off in Dixie. 
 Hurrah! Hurrah) for Dixie, 
 Away I Away I 
 The hoards that boast on Dixie soil 
 To glut their lust and reap the spoil, 
 For ayel for aye 1 
 Shall die and rot "on Dixie. 
 
 Now, let us sing the glorious song, 
 Ol those who go t'avengethe wrong 
 
 01 Yau — it Van— ot Yankees down in Dixie. 
 Let's siug to all on Dixies side, 
 And shed a tear for those who died 
 
 In die— m tin — in the great right for Dixie. 
 Hurrah I Hurrah I for Dixie. 
 Dm rah! Hurrah I 
 We'll drive old Lincoln's hireling band, 
 From Southern seas aud Southern strand, 
 Awayl Away! 
 Or die, each one, iu Dixitw 
 
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