Dixie Lily

Written by：Elton John/Bernie Taupin

Showboat coming up the river

See her lanterns flicker in the gentle breeze

I can hear the crickets singing in the evening

Old dixie lily moving past the cypress trees

My little boat she rocks me easy

I've been catching catfish in the creek all day

Oh and I've never seen ladies like those on the

Big boats

Must be fancy breeding lets you live that way

Dixie lily chugging like a grand old lady

Paddles hitting home in the noon day sun

Ploughing through the water

With your whistles blowing

Down from Louisiana on the vicksburg run

Papa says that I'm a dreamer

Says them skeetas bit me one too many times

Oh but I never get lonesome living on the river

Watching old lily leave the world behind

Dixie lily chugging like a grand old lady

Paddles hitting home in the noon day sun

Ploughing through the water

With your whistles blowing

Down from Louisiana on the vicksburg run

Oh dixie lily chugging like a grand old lady

Paddles hitting home in the noonday sun

Ploughing through the water with your whistles blowing

Down from Louisiana on the vicksburg run

Oh down from Louisiana on the vicksburg run