A popular song from 1924 Words and music by Walter Donaldson
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Chorus:
In the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In Dixieland sweet Dixieland
In the evening, by the Old Swanee River Folks get hot but
Oh! how they shiver to the music they understand
So when you’re speakin’ of beautiful
Speakin’ of wonderful dawning
Nothin’ could be finer than to be in Carolina in the morning
But in the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In the evening, down in Dixieland
Patter:
Goodnight I gotta be
Goodnight I oughta be
Goodnight they’re callin’ me
I’d better hurry along
Goodnight I never knew
I might be feelin’ blue
Some sight I’m tellin’ you
Down by the cotton and corn
In the evening, by the corn and the cotton
Old bad news and blues are forgotten
In the evening, down in Dixieland