When you prize it from my dead fingers

[jaybreak]

I did a lot of research on the song "Dixie" and it still surprises me how a show tune from the days of black-face minstrelsy up north was absorbed as the anthem of the South. It seems a case of mockery turned on its head and worn proudly.

   Indeed it is, Sir. Dixie was written by a Yankee and we knew it was mockery but, Southerners being a gracious people turned it on it's head.

I don't think I've ever heard this song.