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Lyrics

DIXIE WIND

He was born in Fort Valley where peaches grow sweet
Barefoot dancing on them red clay streets
Hair gold as summer…voice like a hymn
But you can't hold on to that Dixie wind

We met one summer on Savannah’s coast
He laughed at so politely at each stupid joke
I was a young girl running with a wild plan
Chasing that flame through a restless land

He's a wild magnolia, standing strong through time
A sweet Georgia sunset that won’t ever shine
I gave him my heart but he returned it again and again
And left me chasing down his love in that Dixie wind

Two years passed just like a hurricane season
One day he was gone without rhyme or reason
I didn’t understand why he needed to go
He was off to a new life in the Utah snow

He's a wild magnolia, standing strong through time
A sweet Georgia sunset that won’t ever shine
I gave him my heart but he returned it again and again
And left me chasing down his love in that Dixie wind

Every month he’s been gone breaks me a little
Like ink bleeding through an old journal’s riddle
I hum the tune of his vanishing trail
A whisper of love in a paper sail

He passed me last summer up near Macon town
In his old red Mustang with the ragtop down
Singing loud to a song by Johnny Cash
That boy’s a sun-blown memory that’ll always last

He's a wild magnolia, standing strong through time
A sweet Georgia sunset that won’t ever shine
I gave him my heart but he returned it again and again
And left me chasing down his love in that Dixie wind
He left me chasing down his love in that Dixie wind

© 2026 Christopher Iverson Music/BMI
words & music: Christopher Iverson