Download Dixie Ringtones for free to your Android, iPhone and Windows Phone mobile and tablet. Get the best free Dixie Ringtones for your mobile device and download MP3 or M4R from Appraw. 'Dixie' is structured into 32 measure groups of alternating verses and refrains, following an AABC pattern. As originally performed, a soloist or small group stepped forward and sang the verses, and the whole company answered at different times; the repeated line 'look away' was probably one part sung in unison like this.
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discussed in biography
- In Daniel Decatur EmmettHis song “Dixie,” written in 1859, was originally a “walk-around,” or concluding number for a minstrel show. It attained national popularity and was later the unofficial national anthem of the Confederacy during the American Civil War (1861–65) and of the South thereafter. Several sets of words, Northern…Read More
lyrics by Emmett
- In Remembering the American Civil War: Daniel Decatur Emmett and Albert Pike: DixieDaniel Decatur Emmett wrote “Dixie” for Bryant’s Minstrels, who first performed it in New York, probably in the late fall of 1859. The song soon reverberated through the land: people clapped their hands to it; soldiers in both the North and the South sang…Read More
lyrics by Pike
- In Remembering the American Civil War: Daniel Decatur Emmett and Albert Pike: Dixie…To arms! To arms, in Dixie!Lo! all the beacon-fires are lighted—Let all hearts be now united!To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!Advance the flag of Dixie!Hurrah! Hurrah!For Dixie’s land we take our stand,And live or die for Dixie!To arms! To arms!…Read More
marching song of the Confederate Army
- In Dixie…song of the Confederate Army, and was often considered the Confederate anthem.Read More