does anyone know this Please Help!!!!!!?

Question

What does the song by Dwight Yokam "I Sang Dixie as he died" about?

Answer 1

I could be wrong but my interpretation was always that he was singing him home . I don't know if they were supposed to be related or what but the man is obviously lost his hopes and dreams in LA to the bottle and was from the south. As he lay drawing his last breath, he says he sang Dixie asking the lord to take this man back home and the dying man tells him to run back home to the south while he can because he wants him to take a good look at what the LA streets had done to him. So in essence, in the end as the man lie dead he was home where his heart was back in Dixie

Answer 2

the lyrics really say it all, hes singing about how the man wants to die in dixie

I sang Dixie as he died
The people just walked on by as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of all his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie as he died

He said way down yonder in the land of cotton
Old times there ain't near as rotten as they are
On this damned old L.A. street
Then he drew a dying breath
And laid his head against my chest
Please Lord take his soul back home to Dixie

Chorus

He said listen to me son while you still can
Run back home to that Southern land
Don't you see what life here has done to me?
Then he closed those old blue eyes
And fell limp against my side
No more pain, now he's safe back home in Dixie

Chorus:

I sang Dixie as he died
The people just walked on by as I cried
The bottle had robbed him of all his rebel pride
So I sang Dixie as he died
I sang Dixie as he died

Answer 3

It's about an old alcoholic who drinks himself to death longing to return to his home in the south. Rhonda Vincent does a heck of a job on her version

Answer 4

I think they are talking about alcoholism??