Dixie (You're A Fine Girl)

(I know at some points I rewrote the song and the tune doesn't fit right, but I tried)

There's a hos-pital in L.A.
And it serves a thousand patients a day
Lonely doctors pass the time away
And talk about their homes
And there's a nurse in this Emergency Room
And she works layin' IVs down
They say "Dixie, fetch another round"
She serves them Ringers and D5

Dixie McCall R.N. was the head nurse of Rampart Emergency, she looked after the staff, was always willing to talk and to work in the treatment rooms.

The fellows say "Dixie, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"Yeah your eyes could steal a sailor from the sea"

Dixie smiled, thinking about the men she worked with, Drs. Brakett and Early made no secret of the fact that they were both very much in love with her, and she could tell that they weren't the only ones. In fact, she was almost certain that every man who came within ten feet of her was in love with her to some extent: the patients who would do anything she asked, the ambulance attendants who blushed every time they walked past her, the entire crew of station 51's A Shift, not just the bachelors: Marco, Chet, and Johnny, but the married men: Hank, Mike, and Roy, as well.

Dixie wears a braided chain
Made of finest silver from the North of Spain
A locket that bears the name
Of the man that Dixie loves

Dixie touched the silver necklace she wore under her nurse's uniform, anyone standing nearby would have seen the sad look in the pretty nurse's lovely blue eyes as she slipped into the memory of the day she had gotten the chain.

He came on a summer's day
Bringin' gifts from far away
But he made it clear he couldn't stay
No harbor was his home

She had loved that man so much, it was the saddest day of her life when he told her that he was leaving again.

The sailor said "Dixie, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"

Yes, he had loved her, but he loved the ocean so much more.

Yeah, Dixie used to watch his eyes
When he told his sailor stories
She could feel the ocean foam rise
She saw its ragin' glory

When he would tell tales of his adventures out on the high seas, she would close her eyes and envision them, almost as clearly as if she were there.

But he had always told the truth, lord, he was an honest man
And Dixie does her best to understand

She understood, she really did, they were never meant to be. "Oh why couldn't it have been Joe or Kel?" she mumbled to herself. If only she could have chosen a man who would stay and love her.

At night when the bars close down
Dixie walks through a silent town
And loves a man who's not around

Every night it was the same, walking home to an empty apartment, pouring herself a drink and wondering where her love was tonight.

She still can hear him say
She hears him say "Dixie, you're a fine girl" (you're a fine girl)
"What a good wife you would be" (such a fine girl)
"But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea"

She would probably hear that voice for the rest of her life.

"Dixie, you're a fine girl. What a good wife you would be. But my life, my lover, my lady is the sea..."