Chorus: when the roses bloom in dixieland, i am coming back to you when the birds are singing music grand to the sweetest girl I ever knew i am saving up my money to buy a little cabin home for two when the roses bloom in dixieland, i am coming back to you i just got a letter from the sunnny south, from my in Tennessee she said she loved me like she used to do, and was waiting there for me i answered back her letter though i am far away when the roses bloom in dixieland i am coming back to stay when I left my honey at the railroad train i said honey wait for me i'm going to make a lot of money up north then its me for old tennessee