Carter Family - My Dixie Darling guitar tab

My Dixie Darling, copyright by A.P. Carter

Transcribed very strictly by Warren Gumeson from a British cheap re-release

of earlier recordings, A Collection of Favorites by the Carter Family ...

(Stetson , HAT 3022, p1963)

They play in A position with instruments tuned a half-tone low (=

A-flat). Solo breaks, guitar over autoharp, are all of the verse tune, quite

regular; but in the breaks they return to the A chord a measure early (as on

"Where"). They sing the choruses as a trio; they have their way with the

rhythm, hard to count out but consistent throughout. I wonder if they knew

what "jellyroll" is.

My Dixie (A) darlin', listen to the song I sing

Beneath the (E) silver moon, with my (A) banjo right in tune

My heart is ever true, I love no one but you,

My Dixie (E) darlin', my Dixie (A) queen.

(A) 'Way down below the Mason-Dixie [sic] line

Down where the honeysuckles are entwined

(E) There's where the southern winds are blowing

(A) There's where the daisies growing

The girls of the North in the gay fin-e-ree

Whirling around in so-ci-e-tee

(E) Singin' the song of Dixie darlin'

Where I long to (A) be

Goin' down South to have a big time

To see my girl in old Caroline,

I'll drink my booze and do as I please

For all those girls I long to squeeze

Singin' the song of Dixie darlin'

There's where I long to be goin'

Down where the jellyroll's rolling

With my Dixie queen