Zakira’s Roses

Dixie

Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten, {Alt Original: Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,]
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.

In Dixie Land, where I was born in,
early on one frosty mornin’,
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
Chorus

I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie

Ole Missus marry “Will the weaver”
Willum was a gay deceiver
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

But when he put his arm around ‘er,
He smiled fierce as a forty pounder,
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

His face was sharp as a butcher’s cleaver
But that did not seem to grieve ‘er
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Ole Missus acted the foolish part
And died for a man that broke her heart
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Now here’s a health to the next ole Missus
An’ all the gals that want to kiss us;
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

But if you want to drive ‘way sorrow
Come and hear this song tomorrow
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

There’s buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter;
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Then hoe it down and scratch your gravel,
To Dixie’s Land I’m bound to travel,
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Sobbin’ Women (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers)
ADAM
Tell ya ’bout them sobbin’ women
Who lived in the Roman days.
It seems that they all went swimmin’
While their men was off to graze.
Well, a Roman troop was ridin’ by
And saw them in their “me oh my”,
So they took ‘em all back home to dry.
Least that’s what Plutarch says.
Oh yes!
Them a woman was sobbin’, sobbin’, sobbin’
Fit to be tied.
Ev’ry muscle was throbbin’, throbbin’
From that riotous ride.
Oh they cried and kissed and kissed and cried
All over that Roman countryside
So don’t forget that when you’re takin’ a bride.
Sobbin’ fit to be tied
From that riotous ride!
They never did return their plunder
The victor gets all the loot.
They carried them home, by thunder,
To rotundas small but cute.
And you’ve never seens so,
They tell me, such downright domesticity.
With a Roman baby on each knee
Named “Claudius” and “Brute”

SIX BROTHERS
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin’, sobbin’, passin’ them nights.

ADAM
While the Romans was goin’ out hobbin’, nobbin’
Startin’ up fights.
They kept occupied by sewin’ lots of little old togas
For them tots and sayin’ “someday women folk’ll have rights.”

GIDEON
Passin’ all o’ them nights.

ADAM
Just sewin’!
While the Romans had fights.

CALEB
“Hey listen to this”
Now when their men folk went to fetch ‘em
Them women would not be fetched.
It seems them Romans ketch ‘em
That their lady friends stay ketched.

ADAM
Now let this be because it’s true,
A lesson to the likes of you,
Treat ‘em rough like them there Romans do
Or else they’ll think you’re tetched.

SIX BROTHERS
Oh yes!
Them a women was sobbin’, sobbin’,
Sobbin’ buckets of tears
On account o’ old dobbin’,
Dobbin’ really rattled their ears.
Oh they acted angry and annoyed

GIDEON
But secretly they was overjoyed

ADAM
You must recall that when corralin’ your streets

BROTHERS
Oh, oh, oh, oh them poe little dears.

SIX BROTHERS ADAM
Oh yes
Them a women was sobbin’, sobbin’, sobbin’ Oh yeah
Weepin’ a ton Then sobbin’ women
Just remember what Robin, Robin, Robin Oh yeah
Hood woulda done. Them sobbin women.
We’ll be just like them three merry men
And make ‘em all merry once again.

ADAM
And though they’ll be a sobbin’ for a while

ALL
Oh yes!
We’re gonna make them sobbin’ women smile!
Titanic

Oh they built the ship Titanic
and when they were through
They thought they had a ship
that the water couldn’t go through
But the good lord raised his hand
said that ship would never stand
It was sad when the great ship went down.

Chorus:

It was sad
It was sad (too bad)
It was sad when the great ship went down
to the bottom of the sea
(husbands and wives, little children lost their lives) OR (uncles and aunts, little children lost their pants)
It was sad when the great ship went down.

Oh they sailed away from England
and were almost to the shore
when the rich refused
to associate with the poor.
So they put them down below
where they’d be the first to go.
It was sad when the great ship went down.

The boat was full of sin
and the sides about to burst
when the captain shouted
“Women and children first”.
Then the captain tried to wire
but the wireless was on fire.
It was sad when the great ship went down.

So they swung the lifeboats out
o’er the deep and raging sea
and he band struck up the song
“Nearer my god to thee”.
Little children wept and cried
as the waves swept o’er the sides.
It was sad when the great ship went down.