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The defiant "In Dixie Land I'll take my stand / To live and die in Dixie" were the only lines used with any consistency. The tempo also quickened, as the song was a useful quickstep tune. Confederate soldiers, by and large, preferred these war versions to the original minstrel lyrics.
I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, 1860. Note: I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, better known as Dixie, was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859 as a closing song for the Bryant Minstrels' performance in New York City. The term "I wish I was in Dixie" was used among circus performers to express their desire to be in the south during the winter.
The Union also adapted Southern songs. In a Union variation of "Dixie", instead of the line "I wish I was in the land of cotton, old times there are not forgotten, Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land", it was changed to "Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and alligators, Right away, come away, right away, come away ...
M. E. Garrison's Map of Dixie published in 1909. This version of Dixie only includes states within the Southeast, omitting traditionally included states such as Texas or Virginia. Dixie, also known as Dixieland or Dixie's Land, is a nickname for all or part of the Southern United States.
"God Save the South" is a poem-turned-song considered by some to have been the unofficial national anthem of the Confederate States of America. [1] The words were written in 1861 by George Henry Miles , under the pen name Earnest Halphin. [ 1 ]
A neon sign for Dixie Lan Bar-B-Que is stored at Element Ten, a neon studio on Troost Avenue. The sign was brought to the studio about five years ago by the city after hanging in the Historic 18th ...
(191-?) "Gleanings from Dixie-Land, in Ten Poems" References. Bibliography. Ragus Company (1 March 1999). The Isis Initiative and the Rites of Freedom. Ragus ...
It contains hand-written notes by Kaur, some 40 new poems and 20 new illustrations. In all, Milk and Honey has sold more than six million copies worldwide, making it the most popular new book of ...