Elton John - Dixie Lily lyrics

Music by elton john<br>Lyrics by bernie taupin<br>Available on the album caribou<br><br>Showboat coming up the river<br>See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze<br>I can hear the crickets singing in the evening<br>Old dixie lily moving past the cypress trees<br><br>My little boat she rocks easy<br>I've been catching catfish in the creek all day<br>Oh and I've never seen ladies like those on the big boats<br>Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way<br><br>Dixie lily, chugging like a grand old lady<br>Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun<br>Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing<br>Down from louisiana on the vicksburg run<br><br>Papa says that I'm a dreamer<br>Says them skeetas bit me one too many times<br>Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river<br>Watching old lily leave the world behind