Posted on 11/12/2006 8:25:07 PM PST by stainlessbanner
I can't imagine how they overlooked Oh, I'm a good old Rebel. Nor Charlie Patton's Green River Blues... Nor why....
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel, now that's just what I am,
And for this yankee nation, I do not give a damn!
I'm glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we'd won,
I ain’t asked any pardon for anything I done.
I hates the yankee nation and everything they do,
I hates the Declaration of Independence too,
I hates the "glorious union," 'tis drippin' with our blood,
I hates their striped banner, I fit it all I could.
I rode with Robert E. Lee for three years, thereabout,
Got wounded in four places, and I starved at Point Lookout;
I cotched the "roomatism" a 'campin' in the snow,
But I killed the chancy yankees, and I'd like to kill some more.
Three hundred thousand yankees is stiff in Southern dust.
We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.
They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,
I wish there were three million instead of what we got.
I can't take up my musket and fight 'em now no more,
But I ain't gonna’ love 'em, now that is certain sure;
And I don't want no pardon for what I was and am,
I won't be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel, now that's just what I am,
For this yankee nation, I do not give a damn.
I'm glad I fought agin’ her, I only wish we'd won,
I ain't asked any pardon for anything I done.
I ain't asked any pardon for anything I done.
--Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A. a former member of J.E.B. Stuart’s staff, written around the end of the 19th century.
Bonnie Blue Flag should be in the top ten. It's right up there with Dixie.
I'd love to find an MP3 of that, it sends a chill up my spine every time.
You would have to ask a banjo picker that. Here's the Johnny Horton version for you.
It stands right alongside The North Carolina War Song
"Georgia, On My Mind" isn't about the state. Hoagy Carmichael's sister's name was Georgia.
Make that "Georgia On My Mind."
It's pretty sad when the list begins as it does. Not much of interest, except to say that #30 and #46 have Sherman and his nasty adventures written all over them. And this listmaker does nothing but play, "Hail To The Chief" for the likes of the scoundrel or pigface, whichever is preferred...
Bonnie Blue Flag should be #1, Dixie#2...
OK. "Is It True What They Say About Dixie?" The Steve Goodman/Kenneth C. "Jethro" Burns arrangement for a preference.
Other than having the word "Georgia" in the title, what do a song about a fiddling contest with the devil and a song about a man being falsely convicted and executed for killing his wife have to do with Sherman?
The Dillards' "Dooley" should be somewhere on that list.
Also: Flatts amd Scruggs "The Wabash Canonball"
The Band's "The Weight"
Roy Clark & Chet Atkins "Alabama Jubilee" just for its superb pickin' alone!
Jack.
Don't you find it mildly disconcerting that the writer of your number 1 song was an Ulsterman who moved to Philadelphia mid-way through the rebellion and the writer of your number 2 song was a Yankee from Mt. Vernon, Ohio?
My top ten Texas songs:
1. "Deep In The Heart Of Texas" (trad.). Peppy, exuding love of the state and is very well known.
2. "God Blessed Texas" - Little Texas. He 'Brought down angels from the Promised Land'. Indeed.
3. "Texas Love & War" - Rusty Weir. 'I'm a Texan and I'm gonna fight for what I love.' Based on the battle of the Alamo.
4. "Texas" - George Strait. I cringe about the 'Cowboys in the Super Bowl' line, but otherwise a fine song.
5. "Southbound 35" - Pat Green. Leaving an 'ocean full of Yankees' sounds like a smart move.
6. "Cotton Eyed Joe" (trad). Even without words, it is the showstopper at almost any Texas honky tonk.
7. "Texas" - Chris Rae. 'Warm winds blowing. Heat and blue skies and a road that goes forever.' Good summation.
8. "San Antonio Rose" - Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. A classic of Texas music. Hawwwww.
9. "Amarillo Highway" - Robert Earl Keen. Classic Texan attitude. 'My trunk's full of Pearl beer and Lone Star'.
10. "I Wouldn't Trade Texas For The World". Points lost for 'where they make that Miller Lite beer' but otherwise a fine song.
A.P. Hill laughing told Stuart and he and Sweeney were banned from visiting the Light Division because after Stuart left all his soldiers wanted to Jine the Cavalry.
I had the music and the words, but not together. I have put it in my favorites, so I can listen to it frequently. Thanks again!
'Twas a pleasure. And, btw, you DO have the music of Lutzow's Wild Hunt in your collection, I hope?
Though horse cav has pretty well faded from the scene, Great Britain's Gurkhas have adopted the tune as their regimental standard, and as helicopter-borne troops, they also continue the tradition of *getting there firstest with the mostest* that America's horse soldiers once set.
i really think you'd be far happier over on DU with the other DAMNyanmkee DUMB-bunnies, who used to be FReepers. why not head that way???
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Hi! Colonel Mosby and Jeb Stuart are here too! Have a good day...
Why don't you just go away. You talk nonsense and stupidity and I don't want to hear from you. You're dumb. DUMB! DUMB! DUMB! DUMB! DUMB! SO JUST GO AWAY!!!!!!
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