Posted on 03/31/2010 3:04:35 PM PDT by TitansAFC
Bang!
Funny how even a “Bang!” from you comes with a lisp...
So help me out here RB:
Is all that pride and camaraderie you remember from your youth in any way linked to the segregation that existed while you were growing up?
Do you recall ANY social problems or racial turbulence going on?
Are all those photos that Bubba posted of citizens and police waving the CBF just part of some grand celebration of life in the South?
Please advise.
The problem is you are a statistic and beehive in centralized authority.. What’s wrong with just admitting it. Are you ashamed? Anyone who wasn’t b-less coward would try to make his case instead of dodging (the Yankee way).
statistic and beehive=stat-ist and believe
Copperhead.
A song written by an anti-slavery Englishman and sung by a Yankee by the way.
Deja vu, mac? I think we've been through much of this before. See Various 2006 posts between 578 to 657. We argued about the flags, whites protesting blacks being bused into their Boston schools, a white spearing a black in Boston with the Stars and Stripes in a Pulitzer Prize winning photo Link, etc.
Yes, there was segregation in the South. It was all over the US, not just the South. I argued against it. Yes, there were race-baiting Democrats in the South. I voted against them. They are up North too, in case you hadn't looked. Yes, blacks did not have the same rights as whites. When I argued that blacks should have the same rights as whites, I got a death threat.
All that doesn't change my feeling for the South. People on these threads in the past have observed how the race relations they observed in the North were worse than those in the South.
There is no place I'd rather be than the South, and I'm glad you are wherever you want to be.
So? Do you expect me not to like a song because of reasons like that? What's that called? Projection? I'm not you.
LOL. Here are some comments made in 1864 by a Copperhead:
The great principle now in issue, is the centralization of power, or the keeping it diffused in State sovereignty, as it is by the organic laws, constituting States and forming the General Government.
... The great boast of the Democratic party, has been, that it has met and beaten back the party of centralization, since the formation of the Union ...
Times have changed, and the parties have switched some of their positions.
I don't give a damn what you like and what you don't. This is a history thread and I'm providing a history of the recording you like. You're the one reading things into it.
Idabilly - Thanks so much for Rhett Atkin’s, “Down South”. Duck hunting reminds me so much of my Grandaddy Fiddler. He earned the moniker. He could fiddle like you wouldn’t believe:) I think you’ll like the links below.
rb - Much obliged for Joan Collins, “Amazing Grace”. That is one beautiful rendition:) We all sang along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgl0W7k_Q-4
Above link is to my favorite hmyn. Interesting story behind this hymn. These aren’t the original words. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and the Waymasters have a good rendition of this one too.
Can’t think of Arlo without providing this link too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piUWIqWSthA
Then the Highwaymmen come to mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94AF_-RIl0E
Which finally brings me to Waylon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGz_xSSgjY0
cowboy - That is some beautiful contryside you are riding in. Thanks so much for the pic. Please enjoy a ride for me till I can get back in the saddle.
Short on time for forum today. Hope you all have a blessed day which the Lord has made:)
IIRC that Southern anthem "Dixie" was written by a Yankee also.
The b-less coward is the one who believes that they live under intolerable tyranny but doesn’t do anything about it except complain on the internet. You’re either afraid to put your beliefs into action, or you don’t REALLY believe them.
Your rant made marginally more sense with “statistic and beehive” lol...
I goofed. It was Judy Collins. I love the other songs you posted. Willie is giving a concert not to far from us this summer. I might go. I've never seen him in person. I have the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band version of Will the Circle Be Unbroken.
I used to think it was amazing that songs on YouTube would get hundreds of thousands or a few million views. Then one of my wife's piano students asked for a copy of a current song. The number of views of the song on YouTube is astronomical. Gone viral, I guess. See: Bad Romance.
True. Since we are going into the history of songs, the music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was from an old Southern camp song. Link
True. Since we are going into the history of songs, the music for "Battle Hymn of the Republic" was from an old Southern camp song. Link
huh.. well I’m not reading through all 1500+ comments but the first few pages didnt seemt o mention this...
Does Paul not realize the Civil War wasn’t about slavery? Slavery was just an auxiliary component that became involved later in the war as one of the big differences between the North and South.
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