In the old land of Dixie
Speaking of race….one of the black guys in our office told our import from Poland that he shouldn’t sing Dixie. Think about this song–it means that the writer wishes that they were back in the slavery days. Our Polish friend was shocked-that never occurred to him what the song meant. Then I told him that the song Camptown Ladies referred to prostitutes (camp followers) (camp town ladies). Then my little friend said he was shocked because his parents brought him a toy that played these songs. He wondered what kind of upbringing he had. ;-}
ME oops AM
p.s. I never really made the dixie slave connection in the song, either.
but was the idea of paradise was to have slaves?
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Interesting… and if you look up the history of the song at http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/dixie.html … it originally referred to paradise, but the first stanza got left off… (play the music while you read…)
And it was the Confederate soldiers’ song… the idea of paradise to return to the warm land of cotton after being in the frozen winter of the North for battles.