The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1903-06-18
And Their
A uthors
r a mi1iar Songs

Chorus
wish | was in Dixie, hi no, hi no!
In Dixie lam I'll take my stand
To lib an die in Dixiey
Hi no, hi no, I'll lib an die in Dixie;
Hi no, hi no, I'll lib an die in Dixie!
Later along, after the song had at
tracted some attention. and about the
time the Southern troops were being
modified for the civil way, Colonel
Hays rewrote the words, making
marching song for the Buckner guards
of Louisville. These were the words.
by the way, that were considered treas
enable. The first verse of these words
was as follows:
We gwan down to de lam oh cotton
Cinnamon seed an sandy bottom;
Away, away, we gwan down to Dixie;
We gwan to fight an sinfi dis song,
Away, away, away down South in
Dixie!
Chorus
We gwan down to Dixie, away, away!
We gwan down to Dixie's land
To stay down South in Dixie!
Away, away, away down South in
Dixie;
Away, away, away down South in
Dixie.
Mr.. Fauld, the publisher, in speaking
Of the song, once said:
TN teaching the music in after years
it was found that it was from an old
English ditty which began:
If was soldier wouldn't go, etc.
"A parody was afterwards written
for children, which was extensively
sung on the plantations in the South,
and thus the slaves got the air. The
parody used to run:
If | had a donkey that wouldn't go,
Do you think I'd whip him? Oh, dear
NO! etc.
and then continued a strain of how the
child would persuade him by candy
and sweetmeats. Thus the slaves pick
ed up the air from the children on the
plantations. How it came to be called
Dixie have never been able to learn.
The South had my edition of the
song an no ether When the war
came on 1t became the marching song
and was the song of the Confederacy.
Even before the war it was regarded,
as it was intended, as strictly South
ern song, and at no time was it popular
in the North.
1.-THE other edition Of Dixie was
published perhaps a year after mine.
It was Dan Emmetts version. The air
was the same, but the words were diff
ferent from those # Hays. Hays was
strictly a Southern song. Emmett's
was version suitable for singing in
the North, where he performed
Il had given the song the title Of
Way Down South in Dixie, and had
5000 copies printed. / sent it to all
my customers in the South, and also
to all the other publishers in the ccun-
try, as all of us sold the others music.
The words copyrighted, but the music
was common property"
No martial music that is today be-
ing played or sung in the United States
is SO popular as Dixie" There is
charm, sweetness, in the music, that
at once touches sympathetic chord in
the heart, and brings huskiness &c the
voice, no matter from what section the
hearer may come Time was when it
was treason to whistle or sing Dixie
north of Mason and Dixon's line In the
streets Of Louisville and other border
cities, during the war men were knock
ed down for humming the air. Today
things are different. Of all the inSpir-
ing national 1irs none is received with
more favor than this old Southern song
in all sections of this our one country.
The band that plays it in Chicago is
cheered just as Justify as the band that
blows out the old familiar air in New
Orleans