Brought On by Hearing One Too Many Other Songs of Nostalgia for the Dear Old South.

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Take me back to the dear ol’ Sout’land.
To the hey-y’all sho’-nuff hush-mah-mout’ land,
To the stuck-down-here-an’-I-wanna-get-out land,
Oh, take me back!

Take me back to the land o’ cotton,
Down where Appomattox ain’t forgotten.
I been feelin’ good, and I wanna feel rotten,
So take me back!

Let me go down there, and once I’ve descended,
There is where my cares and woes will be ended.
Won’t it be splendid?

Take me back to the ol’ plantation,
So my blood can boil with indignation,
’Cause my wallet card says “No resuscitation”—
Oh, take me back!