Dixie Lily

Elton John


Complexity: 73 Readability: 68.83   Sentiment: 11   Word Count: 128   Unique Words: 98
Original Lyrics Munged Lyrics
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 easy
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Showboat coming up the river
Sea her lanterns flicker inn the gentle breeze
Eye can here the crickets singing inn the evening
Old Dixie Lily moving past the cypress trees

My little boat she rocks easy
I've bean catching catfish inn the creak awl day
Owe and I've never scene ladies like those on the big boats
Must bee fancy breeding lets yew live that weigh

Dixie Lily, chugging like a grand old lady
Paddles hitting home inn the noonday son
Ploughing threw the water with yaw whistles blowing
Down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run

Papa says that I'm a dreamer
Says them skeetas bit mi won two many times
Owe butt Eye never get lonesome living on the river
Watching old Lily leave the whirled behind