When the dark night starts falling
And the moon starts to roam
What is this thing that keeps calling?
It’s the south in my soul
How I long for that delta
It’s my home, it’s my goal
Oughta be safe in its shelter
Got the south in my soul
Too long I’ve lingered in the darkness
No matter what I’ve won
I wanna say goodbye to darkness
Spend all my days in the sun
Let me lie on that levee
Let me burn black as coal
I know my heart won’t be heavy
Got the south in my soul
The Andrews Sisters choose to sing this number at the Hotel New Yorker, for fifty bucks on their last attempt to make it big. Next day they were slated to go back to Minneapolis in defeat. Luckily Dave Kapp an executive at Decca records heard them on a taxicab radio. The rest is history.