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Showing Original Post only (View all)What are your feelings about the song "Dixie?" [View all]
I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!In Dixie Land I'll take my stand,
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
I'm asking for a reason that I will reveal later today.
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sorry your own thin skinned sensiblities were offended. now. thread/trashed. n/t
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2015
#28
I could ask, but I imagine that they contract with some 3rd-party company for their hold music
Orrex
Jan 2015
#97
When it's used to glorify confederates, antebellum times, racism, etc., I don't like it.
Hoyt
Jan 2015
#7
tried to find a version w/out the triology. but, yes This Thread was not complete w/out some Elvis.
Tuesday Afternoon
Jan 2015
#30
Elvis had the grace to follow it with the "Battle Hymn of The Republic"
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2015
#34
Yes, I like the melody, too, whether it's the slow Elvis version or more of a march.
amandabeech
Jan 2015
#100
President Lincoln liked it so much, he claimed it for the Union almost 150 years ago. . .
Journeyman
Jan 2015
#31
Aha! I was wondering that myself. I thought it might come from the "Mason-Dixon line"
calimary
Jan 2015
#46
Believe it or not this song has lived in many lives, black and white alike, having spent time in the
Thinkingabout
Jan 2015
#64
How is Louisiana RELEVANT to a song titled "DIXIE", you ask? Are you fucking shitting me?
Pooka Fey
Jan 2015
#90