Dixieland Delight

#27
#27
dono said:
Then you will know that every county in East Tennessee, except Sullivan, voted against joining the Confederacy. So, Middle and East Tennessee may stake their claim to Dixie, but not East. And drawing a line on a map is weak as water, unlike the corn from a jar. And I assume you know of Parson Brownlow. He is buried in Knoxville where he spent some time in jail because he had no truck with dear old Dixie.
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My assumption was that you knew, faulty apparently, the South was the Confederacy, not Dixie. Dixie was derived from a term for currency in Louisiana. While the song Dixie became the fighting song for the Confederacy, it came to be synonymous with southern States, of which Tennessee (hence East Tennessee) was a part of. Enough history, On to football!
 
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chattaboogie said:
That is amazing. I’m just sitting here grinning at how funny us taking that from them is. Whoever made the call to play Dixieland Delight forever has elite Vol Status
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I'm pretty sure we hired the guy from Bama who got fired in 2010 for playing "Go On Take the Money and Run" @ BDS when Cam Newton came out pre game to warm up. 😄
 
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dono said:
Then you will know that every county in East Tennessee, except Sullivan, voted against joining the Confederacy. So, Middle and East Tennessee may stake their claim to Dixie, but not East. And drawing a line on a map is weak as water, unlike the corn from a jar. And I assume you know of Parson Brownlow. He is buried in Knoxville where he spent some time in jail because he had no truck with dear old Dixie.
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If only TN were broken into 2 states where the counties decided to secede, then I might get on board. Unlike West VA they didn't, and the STATE became part of what is spoken of as Dixie.
 
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livefaith said:
If only TN were broken into 2 states where the counties decided to secede, then I might get on board. Unlike West VA they didn't, and the STATE became part of what is spoken of as Dixie.
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East Tennessee however did not secede and went the way the state voted.

The history lesson is interesting - but the truth is none of this has anything to do with the intent of the song. The song is about a Saturday night in TENNESSEE.
 
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volfan102455 said:
East Tennessee however did not secede and went the way the state voted.

The history lesson is interesting - but the truth is none of this has anything to do with the intent of the song. The song is about a Saturday night in TENNESSEE.
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The only problem is the mason Dixon line….nowhere close to TN
 
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Key song lyrics below - it says nothing about Alabama. There is no reference to Mason-Dixon line - it is Mason-Dixon night, which could mean anywhere in what is considered part of the Mason-Dixon area (.. which includes both Tennessee and Alabama ...). The song is a song about driving in the backwoods on a Tennessee by way on a Tennessee Saturday night. Why are we arguing that it is not a song about Tennessee?? Because it is! And we exposed that fact in Neyland by playing the song with the REAL words!

Rollin' down the backwoods
Tennessee by-way
One arm on the wheel
Holdin' my lover
With the other
A sweet, soft, southern thrill
Worked hard all week
Got a little jingle
On a Tennessee Saturday night
Couldn't feel better
I'm together
With my Dixieland Delight
Spend my dollar
Parked in a holler
'Neath the mountain moonlight
Hold her up tight
Make a little lovin
A little turtle dovin' on a Mason-Dixon night
Fits my life
Oh so right
My Dixieland Delight
 
#38
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dono said:
Then you will know that every county in East Tennessee, except Sullivan, voted against joining the Confederacy. So, Middle and East Tennessee may stake their claim to Dixie, but not East. And drawing a line on a map is weak as water, unlike the corn from a jar. And I assume you know of Parson Brownlow. He is buried in Knoxville where he spent some time in jail because he had no truck with dear old Dixie.
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That has nothing to do with the song. The song is about TN. Not Alabama
 
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JCHateSteve said:
That's because Tennessee took it.
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YES! The song is from 1983. More than likely a lot of the students (and maybe a lot of their fans in general) had never heard the actual words other than what they changed them too.

Interestingly enough of all the SEC schools, Tennessee is the only one that could effectively expose the song and take it.
 
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Dr H Lecter said:
My assumption was that you knew, faulty apparently, the South was the Confederacy, not Dixie. Dixie was derived from a term for currency in Louisiana. While the song Dixie became the fighting song for the Confederacy, it came to be synonymous with southern States, of which Tennessee (hence East Tennessee) was a part of. Enough history, On to football!
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Dixie is anything south of the Mason Dixon line.
 
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#45
Beautiful song about Rutledge Tennessee. I’m glad we took it back.

Buck Fama.
 
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Ronnie Rodgers a Nashville boy wrote the song. Alabama the band (malibu's) played in every bar and night club in southeast Tenn.
They had pretty good harmony but musicians they weren't.
There is a hundred songs about Tenn. Personally I'm partial to the old Standard Tennessee Waltz which absolutely has no ties to Alabama.
 
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