Dixie moonlight, Swanee shore   Headed homebound just once more   To my Mississippi delta home   Southland has that grand garden spot   Although you believe or not   I hear those breeze a-whispering:   "Come on back to me"   Muddy water 'round my feet   Muddy water in the street   Just God don't shelter   Down on the delta   Muddy water in my shoes   Reeling and rocking to them lowdown blues   They live in ease and comfort down there   I do declare   Been away a year today   To wander and roam   I don't care it's muddy there   But see it is my home   Got my toes turned Dixie way   'Round the delta let me lay   My heart cries out for muddy water