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In reply to the discussion: What are your feelings about the song "Dixie?" [View all]Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)44. I learned it in elementary school in Arkansas
This was around the time of the Civil War Centennial and I was just becoming aware of Arkansas being a slave state and being on the wrong side in the Civil War, so I didn't like it and refused to sing the proper lyrics. Nowadays, though, I no longer associate it with the Confederacy and the song doesn't bother me, except the part about "Injun" batter.
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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