Posted on 11/12/2006 8:25:07 PM PST by stainlessbanner
Missing from the list: "Are you from Dixie?", "T for Texas", "Bonnie Blue", "Mountain Dew", Doc Watson, Bellamy Bros, and others.
Feel Free to add to or correct the list.
Y'all Come
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My vote for the top song has to be Mrs. Reb's favorite - Bonnie Blue Flag. However, I believe Maryland, My Maryland deserves at least an honorable mention.
"Rank Strangers" by Stanley Brothers.... should be something from Flatt and Scruggs in there too.
they've got Flatt and Scruggs at #50 with Foggy mountain Breakdown. Pretty good list, although Randy Newman should never be on any best of list.
Civil Rights songs are trashing the South? Not really, I think.
Four of the top five, racialist anthems trashing the South. Three of which, including #1 about lynching I never heard of.
Typical Multicultural garbage.
Missing perhaps the single greatest southern song ever recorded, performed, or even possible.
Paul Robson
SHowboat, 1936
"Let me go ´way from this Mississippi.
Let me go ´way from the white man boss.
Show me that stream, called the river Jordan.
That’s the old stream that I long to cross.
Old Man River,
that Old Man River,
he must know something
but he don’t say nothing.
He just keeps rolling.
He keeps on rolling along.
He don’t plant tatoes.
He don’t plant cotton.
And them that plants them
is soon forgotten.
But Old Man River,
he just keeps rolling along.
You and me,
we sweat and strained.
Body all achening, racked with pain.
Tote that barge
and lift that bail.
Get a little drunk then we’ll land in jail.
I get weary
And sick of trying.
I’m tired of living
and scared of dying,
but Old Man River,
he just keeps rolling along".
I'd love to find an MP3 of that, it sends a chill up my spine every time.
"ZIP A DEE DOO DAH", "MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA" [Flame (no pun intended)away].
Where is Jine the Cavalry?
Could I be put on your list please.
Love Rocky Top. My all time favorite.
Song of the South by Alabama.
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How about "If You're Gonna Play in Texas"? (Also by Alabama)
Great one!
Nice list of songs, but I had to laugh at number 22, "Love Shack" by The B-52's.
How in the world is that a southern song?
Furthermore, the fact that not one Ronnie Milsap song is on this list makes me question it even more. "Smoky Mountain Rain" is the first that comes to mind...
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