Transcribed from Lieut. Jim Europe's 369th U.S. Infantry ("Hell Fighters")
Band, vocals by Noble Sissle, recorded May 7, 1919.
From James
Reese Europe and the 369th US Infantry "Hell Fighters" Band, Featuring
Noble Sissle, the Complete Pathe Recordings - 1919, IAJRC CD 1012, 1996.
There'll be happy days in Dixie,
Happy days and nights!
All our boys are back once more,
Celebrating 'cause they've won the war!
Soon again you'll hear them singing,
Round that cabin door,
Old Alexander's got his ragtime band,
Where it belongs, in dear old Dixieland!
There'll be happy days in Dixie,
Dixie will be Dixie once more!
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