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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. "Dixie" was probably the most popular song for Confederate soldiers on the march, in battle, and at camp. [67]
Roll, Alabama, Roll" (Roud 4710) is an American-British sea shanty of the nineteenth century. It is based on the exploits of the CSS Alabama , a sloop-of-war of the Confederate States Navy which enjoyed success as a commerce raider against Union shipping during the American Civil War .
Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. [citation needed]His grandfather, Rev. John Emmett (1759–1847), had been born in Cecil County, Maryland, and after serving as a private in the American Revolutionary War and fighting at the Battle of White Plains in New York and later in Delaware, became a Methodist minister in the then-vast frontier of Augusta County ...
The song immediately became popular across the country and was claimed by both Northern and Southern troops during the Civil War. Dixie's lyrics caused many to accuse Emmett of southern sympathies, despite his family's long history of opposing slavery.
"An Overview of Music of the Civil War Era" Bugle Resounding. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8131-2375-5. Lanning, Michael (2007). The Civil War 100. Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-4022-1040-2. McWhirter, Christian (2012). Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina ...
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
Although country music pushed back against The Chicks, they sold almost 900,000 tickets in the first weekend of their 2003 tour. Months later, they were declared Billboard’s top-selling country ...
The song's lyrics follow the minstrel show scenario of the freed slave longing to return to his master in the South; it was the last time Emmett would use the term "Dixie" in a song. [2] Its tune simply repeated Emmett's earlier walkaround "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry" from 1858.