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Emmett also credited "Dixie" to an old circus song. [37] Despite the disputed authorship, Firth, Pond & Co. paid Emmett $300 for all rights to "Dixie" on February 11, 1861, perhaps fearing complications spurred by the impending Civil War. [47]
The song is a first-person narrative relating the economic and social distress experienced by the protagonist, a poor white Southerner, during the last year of the American Civil War, when George Stoneman was raiding southwest Virginia. Joan Baez's version peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 on October 2, 1971; it did likewise on the Cashbox Top 100 chart.
Pages in category "Songs of the American Civil War" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. ... Dixie (song) Dixie Doodle; Do They Miss Me at ...
During the American Civil War, music played a prominent role on each side of the conflict, Union (the North) and Confederate (the South). On the battlefield, different instruments including bugles, drums, and fifes were played to issue marching orders or sometimes simply to boost the morale of one's fellow soldiers.
The lyrics of the song contain references to such Civil War Generals as Henry Wager Halleck, George B. McClellan, Michael Corcoran, and others. The first verse and chorus are: We’re going down to Dixie, to Dixie, to Dixie, We’re going down to Dixie, to fight for the dear old Flag; And should we fall in Dixie, in Dixie, in Dixie,
Songs of the American Civil War (3 C, 94 P) Pages in category "Songs about the American South" ... Dixie (song) Dixieland Delight; H. The Heart of Dixie (song) ...
In “Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War,” Daniel S. Lucks notes that young Black men enlisted in the war in hopes of proving “they were worthy of their newly ...
The medley uses three 19th-century songs: "Dixie" — a popular folk song about the southern United States. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" — a marching hymn of the Union Army during the American Civil War; [1] and "All My Trials" — a Bahamian lullaby related to African American spirituals and widely used by folk music revivalists