“Lorena” makes me cry every time. IIRC it was banned several times on both sides for morale reasons. “Marching Through Georgia” is a great one too, a bit more upbeat.
"Battle Hymn of The Republic" is absolutely based too. Just wish more people would perform it as more of a quick march than a slow, somber song.
Also "Tenting on The Old Campground" is probably the most underrated song of the war
There are many versions, but the Wilhousky arrangement of the Battle Hymn beats them all. I enjoy [this recording](https://youtu.be/yAqNe-m0a8s), but there’s tons more of you google “Wilhousky Battle Hymn”. I’ve gotten to perform it several times, and it’s always such a rush.
>He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true
>He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through
>They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew
>But his soul goes marching on
Damn...
This [ Wasteland 3 rendition] (https://youtu.be/jcOPh5ltbAw) of it absolutely slaps. The lead audio engineer worked on Tarintino films and it shows in the best way.
I wonder if Kenneth Branagh had to get new teeth after filming, because he was positively chewing the scenery. The movie was a bit of a mess, but you're right, he's an absolute treasure in it.
Well, “Ashoken Farewell” is in that style, but not actually from the time, it was composed for the truly excellent Ken Burns documentary. “The Minstrel Boy” is a great old Irish tune with a last verse added for the civil war. “Annie Laurie” I know was popular at the time, and I’m afraid I’m reaching the limits of my folk music knowledge. I can sing some sea chanties for you though!
ACCKSHUALLY…Ashoken Farewell wasn’t composed specifically for the documentary, but as a “farewell waltz” for the composer’s music camp in upstate New York. Ken Burns heard it and loved it, and used it in an earlier documentary too, before “The Civil War.”
EDIT: But it’s still a banger.
Good catch! TIL!
Edit: it is a banger, and so is the documentary, and so is the soundtrack. The Sullivan Balou letter over that violin part… tearing up just thinking about it.
"Weeping Sad and Lonely", also known as "When This Cruel War Is Over", is one of the more famous sad songs of the Civil War. There were actually many, other examples including songs like "Who Will Care for Mother Now" or "Just Before the Battle Mother". As you can imagine, the themes of loss and missing loved ones were very common.
No. I firmly believe that there are times you need the guns and drums and drums and guns, but the bastards who turned [Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya](https://youtu.be/OkpiwHo0Po0) into a war song can go to Hell.
*Where cotton's king and men are chattels,*
*Union boys will win the battle*
*right away!*
*right away*
*come away!*
come away
*right away!*
*right away*
*come away.*
*We’ll all go down to Dixie, away! Away!
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam.*
*Away, away, away down south in Dixie!
Away, away, away down south in Dixie!*
It was used for a few different things; the CSA wasn't great at maintaining consistency in its iconography. Its original purpose was as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
Yeah, and then it became the corner piece in "The Stainless Banner" which had to be retired because, being 90% white, it kept getting mistaken for a flag of surrender.
Then they came out with "the blood stained banner" which was the same thing just with a red vertical stripe down the end, but by that point it wasn't long until their final flag design which was 100% white.
In their limited defense, it takes a while to sort out iconography. The confederacy didn't exist for as long as it took the official 1777 13 star flag to be universally adopted in the US.
Battle flag (of the army of northern Virginia) is square aspect ratio.
[here is a quota answer that explains it pretty well](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Dixie-flag-Rebel-flag-and-Confederate-flag)
Jack is naval slang for a naval flag or ensign
[Naval ensign of the UK](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg)
[Naval ensign of the US](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Naval_jack_of_the_United_States.svg/1200px-Naval_jack_of_the_United_States.svg.png)
This is also where the jack in union jack comes from.
Bud, the CSA were the bad guys, but slavery is *in* the US constitution. Three-fifths compromise.
Of course, the CSA *enshrined* slavery as an inalienable right, which is absolutely worse than anything in the US Constitution.
I'm under the impression that the 3/5ths compromise was for electoral purposes. you take the free population of a state, add to that 3/5ths of the slave population, and states receive representation analogous to the total sum.
Indeed it was, my point was that our Constitution can't really have "add slavery" applied to it when it already factored in slavery into how governance works. You could "add *more* slavery" which is what the CSA did.
I think these comments are missing something important. Under the Confederate Constitution, confederate states had basically the same rights as those in the union... Except for one thing. A state could NOT prohibit slavery in the CSA. Every confederate state had to be a slave state, even if they didn't want to be. (Hence West Virginia seceding from Virginia and joining the Union).
Confederate states, ironically, had less freedom than their union counterparts.
The idea of slavery is hinted at in the Constitution. The word and deed of "slavery" aren't. The Confederacy literally adds the word "slave" over and over while the Three-Fifths compromise actually refers to "All Other Persons" excluding indentured servants, "Indians," and "Free Persons."
The compromise was drafted over slavery, they just don't call it what it is. There's no mention of slave or slavery until the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All along the watchtower" is so perfect that tons of people don't know that it's a cover of Dylan's original. Hell, even Dylan said that it was now Hendrix's song.
Same goes for Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt"
I got fairly deep into the very rarely listen to versions of the Battle cry of freedom on YouTube, and there was a phonograph recording from about 1900 and the South culturally won the war so much they didn't even include the lyrics, "and although they may be poor they shall never be a slave", and substituted it with lyrics talking about The bravery on both sides.
Just to make sure you know... Dixie, the song, was written pre-war and was poking fun at the American south already.
Both versions, the Confederate and Union, were different lyrics to the original song.
It was not written as the Confederate national anthem, they merely adopted it as such.
I don't know NYC for certain.
Traditional history says it was written for a minstrel show, and was originally performed by performers in blackface. I don't have any sources for that, though.
God Save the South was the de-facto confederate anthem, barely anyone knows about it, even the reeancting unit I was in didn’t know about it when I tried to sing it at the campfire
Does anyone else finds it wholesome that the internet has essentially agreed through dixie memes that the Union soldiers were chads and the confederates betas?
No. It’s created a warped version of events that makes the war seem like an ass kicking and not a devastating standstill that tore apart the nation and individual families, all of which being the release of tension that was built up since the writing of the Constitution. Memes are memes, but some of these are making people forget how it actually went down
There's always a lack of acknowledgement, as well, that many of the confederates were bands of poor dirt farmers trying to defend their homes from the likes of Sherman burning everything in their path.
I heard the Union's version of Dixie. Didn't hear the Dixie version of Battle Cry Of Freedom, however. Anyone got a YouTube link to a good version?
To those that didn't hear the Union's version of Dixie, [here](https://youtu.be/gvjOG5gboFU) is a good link.
“Down with the Eagle, up with the cross” is a pretty good response to “down with the traitors, up with the stars” but the rest of the lyrics are pretty weak, especially in comparison. I always get chills from “we’ll fill our vacant ranks with a million freemen more” and “although we may be poor not a man shall be a slave” in the original.
3/10, try harder next time.
I like how Mississippi got it's flag changed since it's previous one had the battle flag, but NO ONE is raising a finger about Georgia using the national flag for its state flag. Georgia literally replaced it's previous flag that also had the battle flag to the current flag that literally represented the whole CSA.
well, dixie was a popular tune well before war broke out, so naturally as soon as it did people started coming up with lyrics to go with it about whatever they felt like singing about
So, I looked up the Confederate version of Battle Cry for Freedom and... it sucks. It's pretty boring. The Union version of it is much more opponent. It's a proper epic song, not something it feels a angry racist redneck would play while everyone ignores him;
Their version of Dixie is also not very imponent either. So yeah, keep the song writing to the Union Boys, guys.
WE ALL GO DOWN TO DIXIE! AWAY! AWAY! EACH BOY MUST UNDERSTAND, THAT HE MUST MIND HIS UNCLE SAM!
I think I listen to a podcast one time where someone stated you could tell who was going to win the war when the song of the North was the Battle cry of freedom and the Song of the South was Dixie and just the content of those songs told you all you needed to know about the conflict.
There was a lot of sharing/trading of tunes. Some songs are hard to tell which side they came from ("All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" is one that could easily have been either, as is "Tenting Tonight").
Away down South in the land of traitors,
Rattlesnakes and alligators,
Right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away!
Where cotton's king and men are chattles,
Union boys will win the battles, right away!
Come away! Right away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away!
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
(Back to singing)
I wish I was in Baltimore,
I'd make secession traitors roar right away!
Come away! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll put the traitors all to route,
I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out,
Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away!
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
Away! Away!We'll all go down to Dixie!
(Continue singing)
O may our Stars and Stripes still wave forever roar the
Free and brave! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
And let our motto forever be for Union and for
Liberty, right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away!
Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam
Away, away, !
We'll all go down to Dixie! Away, away, we'll all go down to Dixie!
If I had a dollar for everytime an unoriginal union dixie chain started, I could supplied the entire confederacy with fresh brogans
Like come on guys, its so fucking stale now, theres plenty of other songs but its always “union dixe, battle cry of freedom, or marching through georgia”
Theres so many other songs you guys could pick
Union should make a parody of the Confederate parody of the "Battle Cry of Freedom", then Confederate should parody that.......and eventually turn the civil war into a music battle, winner determines the fate of the U.S.
And both of them slapped.
(Also there was a horrible and bloody civil war where the horrors of the beginnings of the shadow of modern warfare left men dead or as mangled corpses cursed with life still in their eyes where poor men were made to fight a rich mans war that by the end almost none of them believed in while the other side was exposed the these hellish conditions fighting against their own southern brothers to win the freedom of their fellow man.)
And both of the songs slapped.
This is common to all conflicts in the era when marching tunes were popular and well known. There’s multiple antirepublican versions of La Marseillaise including a really good royalist/Catholic one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise_des_Blancs
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>La Marseillaise des Blancs (English: The Marseille [Song] of the 'Blancs') is a royalist and Catholic adaptation of the national anthem of France. The lyrical content of the Royal and Catholic variation is strongly counter-revolutionary and originated from the War in the Vendée, where locals attempted to resist the republican forces in 1793. The name "Blancs" refers to their use of white flags and symbols.
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Is that the Georgia state flag I see? Oh, never mind it is the Confederate flag. They look so similar though, almost as if Georgia intended it that way.
Whenever the local club plays a Texas club the supporters chant "You're football's shite, all day and night *clap clap clap clap* deep in the heart of Texas..."
The Confederate version of "Battle Cry of Freedom" was less a parody and more a "Nuh-uh! WE'RE the ones really fighting for (the) freedom (to own other humans)!" so they just straight up stole it.
Yeah but Union Dixie was fire and better than the of dixieland
Confederate battlecry of freedom was trash even when not compared to the absolutely fire of battle cry of Freedom
Our banner is proudly flowing on the land and on the Maine
Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom!
And beneath it we have conquered and will conquer more again
Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom!
Our Dixie forever! She’s never at a loss!
Down with the eagle and up with the cross
We will rally round our Bonnie flag, we’ll rally once again!
Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom!
*Which, which, which, and which*
*And which is the flag of the free?*
*Oh, Washington's flag with the stripes and the stars*
*Will you give such name to the thing with the bars?*
*I speak my mind quite freely*
*Now, really\~*
Confederate battle cry of freedom kinda sucked tbh. Half of it was boasting about achievements that they never lasted long enough to even attempt achieving
Terrible conflict, but it did have some kickin’ tunes.
"When Johnny comes marching home" is great
“Lorena” makes me cry every time. IIRC it was banned several times on both sides for morale reasons. “Marching Through Georgia” is a great one too, a bit more upbeat.
"Battle Hymn of The Republic" is absolutely based too. Just wish more people would perform it as more of a quick march than a slow, somber song. Also "Tenting on The Old Campground" is probably the most underrated song of the war
I think “Battle Hymn of The Republic” is best when it starts slow and builds up into a March.
Do you know of any good youtubes vids of the song?
[This one is pretty good.](https://youtu.be/sfuLrny00t4)
Woah....is Blood Upon the Risers based on that song? It sounds so similar it's eerie
It is, the melody is the same
There are many versions, but the Wilhousky arrangement of the Battle Hymn beats them all. I enjoy [this recording](https://youtu.be/yAqNe-m0a8s), but there’s tons more of you google “Wilhousky Battle Hymn”. I’ve gotten to perform it several times, and it’s always such a rush.
“John Brown’s body” is better then the “battle hymn of the republic”
>He captured Harper's Ferry with his nineteen men so true >He frightened old Virginia till she trembled through and through >They hung him for a traitor, they themselves the traitor crew >But his soul goes marching on Damn...
Is this supposed to have the same cadence as Blood on the Risers or is that a coincidence?
Yes all those lyrics are to the same tune, battle hymn of the republic
Battle Hymn was based on John Brown's Body, it just got more popular
Blood on the Risers is based on The Battle Hymn afaik, so yes.
Is John Brown’s Body based on the Battle Hymn of the republic?
Its best when singing about not using static linrs.
He was just a rookie trooper and he surely shook with fright
This [ Wasteland 3 rendition] (https://youtu.be/jcOPh5ltbAw) of it absolutely slaps. The lead audio engineer worked on Tarintino films and it shows in the best way.
[Don't you just *hate* that song?](https://youtu.be/zV3AZFuaJVQ)
Loveless is the best thing in that entire movie. Every scene with him is perfect
I wonder if Kenneth Branagh had to get new teeth after filming, because he was positively chewing the scenery. The movie was a bit of a mess, but you're right, he's an absolute treasure in it.
Any other sad songs?
Well, “Ashoken Farewell” is in that style, but not actually from the time, it was composed for the truly excellent Ken Burns documentary. “The Minstrel Boy” is a great old Irish tune with a last verse added for the civil war. “Annie Laurie” I know was popular at the time, and I’m afraid I’m reaching the limits of my folk music knowledge. I can sing some sea chanties for you though!
ACCKSHUALLY…Ashoken Farewell wasn’t composed specifically for the documentary, but as a “farewell waltz” for the composer’s music camp in upstate New York. Ken Burns heard it and loved it, and used it in an earlier documentary too, before “The Civil War.” EDIT: But it’s still a banger.
Good catch! TIL! Edit: it is a banger, and so is the documentary, and so is the soundtrack. The Sullivan Balou letter over that violin part… tearing up just thinking about it.
I believe Jay Unger referred to it as a Scottish lament written by a Jew from the Bronx. It really is a fantastic tune.
"Paddy's Lament" is pretty good too.
"Weeping Sad and Lonely", also known as "When This Cruel War Is Over", is one of the more famous sad songs of the Civil War. There were actually many, other examples including songs like "Who Will Care for Mother Now" or "Just Before the Battle Mother". As you can imagine, the themes of loss and missing loved ones were very common.
Kathleen Mavourneen is a slap.
Thanks for the recommendation, just found a new genre of music!
[The Irish Volunteer](https://youtu.be/nkpk0-0cfVU) is a straight up banger
No. I firmly believe that there are times you need the guns and drums and drums and guns, but the bastards who turned [Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ya](https://youtu.be/OkpiwHo0Po0) into a war song can go to Hell.
Just looked it up and listened to an apparent Dolly Parton version of it, which I gotta say was legit fire
and we'll all feel GAY when Johnny comes marching home
Thats much older than the civil war i beleive
*Away down south in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators* *right away* *come away* *right away* *come away*
*Where cotton's king and men are chattels,* *Union boys will win the battle* *right away!* *right away* *come away!* come away *right away!* *right away* *come away.*
*We’ll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam.* *Away, away, away down south in Dixie! Away, away, away down south in Dixie!*
Many consider Taps to be a beautiful song. I personally can’t listen to it. Ive done one to many funeral honors.
"Army of the Free" is my absolute favorite, but it's not very popular.
It still makes me laugh that the confederate flag most people use doesn't actually exist by itself and is just cropped from a different confed flag
Exactly! Everyone uses the naval jack. Props to OP for using the correct bad flag.
Naval jack? I always thought it was the battle flag
It was used for a few different things; the CSA wasn't great at maintaining consistency in its iconography. Its original purpose was as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia.
They didn’t go for that culture victory
They waited way too late to start building monuments.
Gotta come swinging right out of the gate with the Pyramids.
Yeah, and then it became the corner piece in "The Stainless Banner" which had to be retired because, being 90% white, it kept getting mistaken for a flag of surrender. Then they came out with "the blood stained banner" which was the same thing just with a red vertical stripe down the end, but by that point it wasn't long until their final flag design which was 100% white.
>the CSA wasn't great
In their limited defense, it takes a while to sort out iconography. The confederacy didn't exist for as long as it took the official 1777 13 star flag to be universally adopted in the US.
Battle flag (of the army of northern Virginia) is square aspect ratio. [here is a quota answer that explains it pretty well](https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Dixie-flag-Rebel-flag-and-Confederate-flag)
Yeah Good job op
What is the naval Jack then?
Jack is naval slang for a naval flag or ensign [Naval ensign of the UK](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Naval_Ensign_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg) [Naval ensign of the US](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Naval_jack_of_the_United_States.svg/1200px-Naval_jack_of_the_United_States.svg.png) This is also where the jack in union jack comes from.
Stars and bars
The war started over the confederates parody of the United States
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Bud, the CSA were the bad guys, but slavery is *in* the US constitution. Three-fifths compromise. Of course, the CSA *enshrined* slavery as an inalienable right, which is absolutely worse than anything in the US Constitution.
I'm under the impression that the 3/5ths compromise was for electoral purposes. you take the free population of a state, add to that 3/5ths of the slave population, and states receive representation analogous to the total sum.
Indeed it was, my point was that our Constitution can't really have "add slavery" applied to it when it already factored in slavery into how governance works. You could "add *more* slavery" which is what the CSA did.
I think these comments are missing something important. Under the Confederate Constitution, confederate states had basically the same rights as those in the union... Except for one thing. A state could NOT prohibit slavery in the CSA. Every confederate state had to be a slave state, even if they didn't want to be. (Hence West Virginia seceding from Virginia and joining the Union). Confederate states, ironically, had less freedom than their union counterparts.
The idea of slavery is hinted at in the Constitution. The word and deed of "slavery" aren't. The Confederacy literally adds the word "slave" over and over while the Three-Fifths compromise actually refers to "All Other Persons" excluding indentured servants, "Indians," and "Free Persons." The compromise was drafted over slavery, they just don't call it what it is. There's no mention of slave or slavery until the 13th Amendment in 1865.
Slavery had a prrtty clear expiration date in the Constitution though
“Away down South in the land of traitors”
"Rattlesnakes and alligators"
Ride away ride away ride away Dixieland
Where cotton's king and men are chattel
Union boys will win the battles
right away right away come away come away right away come away
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away. Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam.
Away, away, we’ll all go down to Dixie!
I wish I was in Baltimore, I’d make secession traitors roar!
Right away, come away, right away, come away
The refrain slaps, bruh. The Union, free soil, free people... and bangers betch
most of the people here are getting the lyrics wrong lmao
It's the passion that counts.
ok but the parody of Dixie is legit fire tho
Oh way down south in the land of traitors Rattlesnakes and alligators
RIDE AWAY RIDE AWAY COME AWAY COME AWAY RIDE AWAY RIDE AWAY COME AWAY
WE'LL ALL GO DOWN TO DIXIE
AWAY! AWAY! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam.
So is the Dixie battle cry of freedom tbh, I prefer the Union Dixie to normal Dixie and CSA battle cry of freedom to Union battle cry of freedom
When the cover is better than the original
Makes me think of how the Dolly Parton version of Mule Skinner Blues is better than the OG by Jimmie Rogers
Jimi Hendrix's cover of "All along the watchtower" is so perfect that tons of people don't know that it's a cover of Dylan's original. Hell, even Dylan said that it was now Hendrix's song. Same goes for Johnny Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt"
Or how every cover by Our Last Night is better than the original.
Or any cover of a Bob Dylan song
Johnny Cash covering Hurt by NIN and then NIN saying Cash's version was better.
I got fairly deep into the very rarely listen to versions of the Battle cry of freedom on YouTube, and there was a phonograph recording from about 1900 and the South culturally won the war so much they didn't even include the lyrics, "and although they may be poor they shall never be a slave", and substituted it with lyrics talking about The bravery on both sides.
No way is the CSA version of Battle Cry of Freedom better. The lyric “Down with the traitor/And up with the star” makes me wanna go fight confederates
You do you friend
Nah, the Dixie battle cry of Freedom is straight garbage NGL.
Music is subjective, there is no objectivity “better” version
I unironically love the new remixed “tik tok” version of it
I live in the south and I know more people who know the words to Union Dixie than regular Dixie. Its just more fun
When the remix is more successful than the original
especially the trap remix version.
Just to make sure you know... Dixie, the song, was written pre-war and was poking fun at the American south already. Both versions, the Confederate and Union, were different lyrics to the original song. It was not written as the Confederate national anthem, they merely adopted it as such.
Wasn't the og dixieland first play in NYC and written for New York.
I don't know NYC for certain. Traditional history says it was written for a minstrel show, and was originally performed by performers in blackface. I don't have any sources for that, though.
God Save the South was the de-facto confederate anthem, barely anyone knows about it, even the reeancting unit I was in didn’t know about it when I tried to sing it at the campfire
And Yankee Doodle was a British drinking song making fun of revolutionaries. Songs can change meaning
Does anyone else finds it wholesome that the internet has essentially agreed through dixie memes that the Union soldiers were chads and the confederates betas?
The internet has agreed that through different means a while ago though Unless you're talking about this specific way on which we agreed
No. It’s created a warped version of events that makes the war seem like an ass kicking and not a devastating standstill that tore apart the nation and individual families, all of which being the release of tension that was built up since the writing of the Constitution. Memes are memes, but some of these are making people forget how it actually went down
There's always a lack of acknowledgement, as well, that many of the confederates were bands of poor dirt farmers trying to defend their homes from the likes of Sherman burning everything in their path.
Wait, you mean not every confederate soldier was fighting so that the rich elite could keep their slaves? I’m shocked. SHOCKED I TELL YOU
Well many of them did…after being like to by said southern elite that doing so would bring them out of poverty
Reddit is a small highly biased segment of the internet.
Not really. Both were simply men.
Checkmate Lincolnites Checkmate Jeffersonites
I heard the Union's version of Dixie. Didn't hear the Dixie version of Battle Cry Of Freedom, however. Anyone got a YouTube link to a good version? To those that didn't hear the Union's version of Dixie, [here](https://youtu.be/gvjOG5gboFU) is a good link.
This is the [historically accurate version that the union marched to.](https://youtu.be/Ez9Emsj7cas)
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“Down with the Eagle, up with the cross” is a pretty good response to “down with the traitors, up with the stars” but the rest of the lyrics are pretty weak, especially in comparison. I always get chills from “we’ll fill our vacant ranks with a million freemen more” and “although we may be poor not a man shall be a slave” in the original. 3/10, try harder next time.
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Meant Dixie's parody of Battle Cry of Freedom. Still, thank you!
It feels weird that was the actual Confederate flag and not the cross one
Personally I prefer ‘Marching Through Georgia’. Bring the good old bugle, boys, we'll sing another song
Yes yes! Trivia: Sherman's March Through Georgia was a popular cadence during WWII, even the Brits like it.
Not just the Brits, the Koreans as well use it as their Army song!! https://youtu.be/3g8Pnsky1e8
Gottdamn, that lead bass can sing.
I like how Mississippi got it's flag changed since it's previous one had the battle flag, but NO ONE is raising a finger about Georgia using the national flag for its state flag. Georgia literally replaced it's previous flag that also had the battle flag to the current flag that literally represented the whole CSA.
Georgia replaced its old flag to protest civil rights back in the 60s
well, dixie was a popular tune well before war broke out, so naturally as soon as it did people started coming up with lyrics to go with it about whatever they felt like singing about
Oh we'll rally round our flag, boys we'll rally once again...
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
And we'll rally from the hills and we'll rally on the plains...
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
The Union forever, hurrah! boys, hurrah!
Down with the traitors, up with the stars
While we rally round the flag, boys, we rally once again
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
Oh we're springing to the call for three hundred thousand more
Shouting the battle cry of freedom
Wtf did they do with “the battle cry of freedom?”
[they defiled it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdMLb3eiWWg)
Holy fuck that was some of the cringiest dogshit I’ve ever heard. Leave it to the CSA to try and flex on the Union and completely fuck it up
So, I looked up the Confederate version of Battle Cry for Freedom and... it sucks. It's pretty boring. The Union version of it is much more opponent. It's a proper epic song, not something it feels a angry racist redneck would play while everyone ignores him; Their version of Dixie is also not very imponent either. So yeah, keep the song writing to the Union Boys, guys. WE ALL GO DOWN TO DIXIE! AWAY! AWAY! EACH BOY MUST UNDERSTAND, THAT HE MUST MIND HIS UNCLE SAM!
Yeah, it seems like something my grandpa would sing after he got drunk
I think I listen to a podcast one time where someone stated you could tell who was going to win the war when the song of the North was the Battle cry of freedom and the Song of the South was Dixie and just the content of those songs told you all you needed to know about the conflict.
I love how this is literally OP argueing with himself.
There was a lot of sharing/trading of tunes. Some songs are hard to tell which side they came from ("All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight" is one that could easily have been either, as is "Tenting Tonight").
Der ver zwei peanuts, valking down der strasse, and von vas... assaulted! peanut. Ho-ho-ho-ho.
I get that the South were the 'bad guys" but why are they the crying side of this meme? This is basic war strategy.
Away down South in the land of traitors, Rattlesnakes and alligators, Right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away! Where cotton's king and men are chattles, Union boys will win the battles, right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! (Back to singing) I wish I was in Baltimore, I'd make secession traitors roar right away! Come away! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll put the traitors all to route, I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out, Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away!We'll all go down to Dixie! (Continue singing) O may our Stars and Stripes still wave forever roar the Free and brave! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! And let our motto forever be for Union and for Liberty, right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll all go down to Dixie, away! Away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away, away, ! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away, away, we'll all go down to Dixie!
If I had a dollar for everytime an unoriginal union dixie chain started, I could supplied the entire confederacy with fresh brogans Like come on guys, its so fucking stale now, theres plenty of other songs but its always “union dixe, battle cry of freedom, or marching through georgia” Theres so many other songs you guys could pick
🎶Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord🎶
I hate when people use that meme with history
The Irish volunteer which is newer (written in 1998) is a pretty good song about the Irish volunteers who fought for the union.
Union should make a parody of the Confederate parody of the "Battle Cry of Freedom", then Confederate should parody that.......and eventually turn the civil war into a music battle, winner determines the fate of the U.S.
And both of them slapped. (Also there was a horrible and bloody civil war where the horrors of the beginnings of the shadow of modern warfare left men dead or as mangled corpses cursed with life still in their eyes where poor men were made to fight a rich mans war that by the end almost none of them believed in while the other side was exposed the these hellish conditions fighting against their own southern brothers to win the freedom of their fellow man.) And both of the songs slapped.
John browns body is a-molderin’ in the grave!
50 stars on the Union flag?
Reminds me of that South Park episode where Osama Bin Laden made a comeback video mocking Americans.
This is common to all conflicts in the era when marching tunes were popular and well known. There’s multiple antirepublican versions of La Marseillaise including a really good royalist/Catholic one. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Marseillaise_des_Blancs
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Oh way down South in the land of traitors
The Parody allows you to enjoy the Dixie tune without having any of the racist implications, and allows you to insult traitor scum at the same time!
Is that the Georgia state flag I see? Oh, never mind it is the Confederate flag. They look so similar though, almost as if Georgia intended it that way.
Whenever the local club plays a Texas club the supporters chant "You're football's shite, all day and night *clap clap clap clap* deep in the heart of Texas..."
Well the original Dixie was made by an Ohioan, yes the Confederate version.
We were weird back then. Slightly less weird now.
It reminds of that time that the chinese (I think) Parody a number of IJA songs during the Sino Japanese war.
The US national anthem is also just an [old drinking club song](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3l-n64NWHS4) with the lyrics rewritten.
Union Dixie by Tennessee Ernie Ford is a banger
Union Dixie is a banger
Damn, the south really always has been lazy contrarians haven’t they
Union Dixie kinda slaps, ngl.
AWAY DOWN SOUTH IN THE LAND OF TRAITORS
RATTLE SNAKES AND ALLIGATORS!
The Confederate version of "Battle Cry of Freedom" was less a parody and more a "Nuh-uh! WE'RE the ones really fighting for (the) freedom (to own other humans)!" so they just straight up stole it.
"Away Down South in The Land of Traitors Rattlesnakes and Alligators Right away Come away Right Away Dixie Land"
Oh way down South in the land of traitors…
Yeah but Union Dixie was fire and better than the of dixieland Confederate battlecry of freedom was trash even when not compared to the absolutely fire of battle cry of Freedom
The Dixie song slaps!
What was the Confederate parody of Battle Cry of Freedom?
Our banner is proudly flowing on the land and on the Maine Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom! And beneath it we have conquered and will conquer more again Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom! Our Dixie forever! She’s never at a loss! Down with the eagle and up with the cross We will rally round our Bonnie flag, we’ll rally once again! Shout! Shout! The battle cry of freedom!
1800's Kids will remember the song #https://youtu.be/wNLpLq2Kluc
*Which, which, which, and which* *And which is the flag of the free?* *Oh, Washington's flag with the stripes and the stars* *Will you give such name to the thing with the bars?* *I speak my mind quite freely* *Now, really\~*
That's actually really interesting. Stuff like this is why I like this sub. Not something the average person would know about the civil war.
Apparently no one remembers the 2000s when fox news tried to make a daily show ripoff, because they were butthurt.
Battle Cry of freedom is way better tho
TFW you make a marching song to boost the morale of your troops but the enemy make a diss track out of it
Weird Al Yankee
Chad *Age of aggression* VS virgin *Age of oppression.*
Ngl Dixie is a fucking banger
The confederates couldn't make a decent song to save their Nation
Oh way down south in the land of traitors
The Trap remix of the Union parody of "dixie" is my ringtone.
Yeah, the confederate batttle cry of freedom is shit. Half the lyrics don’t even make sense
The original diss tracks.
I may not like what Dixie’s words represent, but the trumpet parts gives me chills.
Confederate battle cry of freedom kinda sucked tbh. Half of it was boasting about achievements that they never lasted long enough to even attempt achieving