| "I Sang Dixie" | ||||
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| Single by Dwight Yoakam | ||||
| from the album Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room | ||||
| B-side | "Floyd County" | |||
| Released | October 1988 | |||
| Format | 7" 45 RPM | |||
| Recorded | 1988 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Length | 3:28 | |||
| Label | Reprise 27715 | |||
| Writer(s) | Dwight Yoakam | |||
| Producer | Pete Anderson | |||
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"I Sang Dixie" is a song written and recorded by country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It is the second single released from his 1988 album Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room. It peaked at #1 in the United States in 1989.[1]
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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 mans 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 (1988–1989) | Peak position |
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| U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles | 1 |
| 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 |
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.
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