John Phillip Sousa - I Wish I Was in the Land of Cotton

[kygemini90]

LOL! The Barack Obama for President ad popped up on this video. That is just WRONG!

[Snado]

Now when this is playing, beware of people who have just been thrown out of a bar. They're likely to march back in under the influence of this.

[lightatom1]

In his first concert in Atlanta, He played Dixie, commenting that Lincoln asked him to play it after the surrender of Lee and his forces at Appomatix. He then played Lincolns favorite Glory, Glory Hallelua! After every song that day, he played Dixie after each one...

[kratosdj95]

Lol it reminds me fallout new vegas

[holmesbinton]

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[kratosdj95]

@holmesbinton sure but this song is in new vegas

[holmesbinton]

@kratosdj95, No! Its in Fallout 3 on Enclave Radio! Check it out! ;)

[kratosdj95]

@holmesbinton Yeah maybe i I hadn't noticed

the flying radio pursued me in new vegas that's why i remember it

[SpecialEffects9]

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Long live the Buffalo Soldiers.

[DanM25456]

This song is not by Sousa and it's not a military march. Good version, though.

[jhmc331]

It is not about race.................IT IS ABOUT INTEGRITY, MORALS AND UNCOMPROMISING VALUES... I KNOW OF NO SOUTHERNER WHO LOOKS AT COLOR.... BUT ONLY INTEGRITY... GOD MADE MAN EACH AND EVERYONE OF US AND THERE IS HATRED IN EVERY PERSON......COLOR IS JUST A CAUSE FOR EACH... FOR THERE IS HATRED IN PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIGHT SKIN AND THERE IS HATRED IN THOSE WITH DARKER SKIN... BUT TO GOD THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE... IF YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE THEN MAYBE YOU DO NOT KNOW GOD AND JESUS....THINK?

[chansonangelica]

This was Abraham Lincoln's favorite song-had it played at his first inauguration

[skiprydell1]

I hope you feel better. The South was doomed to lose the War, both militarily and morally. It was the latter that doomed her. Longstreet was the definitive voice...if the South had freed the slaves and THEN fired on Sumpter, Richmond would be a world capital today....although probably speaking German.....

[DrKorn5]

@skiprydell1 If songs give you a good idea of the sentiment of the people singing them find me a song sungby the Federal army that refered to slavery or freeing slaves that was composed before 1863.

[legomyeggo713]

Long live the south especialy south Carolina

[rbh1138]

Here are a few facts, for most of the War the South dominated. Being out manned and out supplied the Confederate Military achieved a higher kill count then the North through the entire war. The North not only had a steady supply of Northerners and immigrants, but former slaves that became soldiers. The North had to resort to war crimes to win. The raping, killing, and then eventual burning of Atlanta, is only a few of the inhumane things the North did.

[JohnnyC133]

@rbh1138 The South committed war crimes as well, especially against POWs. In fact, the only Southerner hanged for war crimes was for war crimes against the POWs in the camp he commanded. Neither side held the moral high ground in the U.S. Civil War.

[LEOPARDTWO]

What a spirited tune! Five stars!

[bullyboy1863]

DEFINITELY not sousa dude.

[johnafielding]

It was not written by Sousa

[AlakimSirrah]

in Dixieland ill take my stand to live and die in Dixie.

[wulfshelmut01]

Only liberal retards and public school educated nit wits say the Civil War was all about slavery. It was about states rights. The right of state to govern themselves the way our founding fathers meant it to be.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

werdup, I glanced at your profile and wondered if you were fond of Edvard Griegs piece "In the Hall of the Mountain King". We played a much simplified version of this under the title of "Peer Gynt's Nightmare" in high school.

[reb198]

all for our dear old flag keep powder dry boys

[ingvarsb]

@ImperatorDominus

I'm sure that slavery could have been abolished with other means than war. The rest of the world managed to abolish slavery without war, why couldn't America do that :)?

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

@ingvarsb .. If left alone slavery would have collapsed on its own by 1900 and spared the nation the bloody war from 1861 to 1865. ....In congress at the time a contingent from Massachusetts was clamoring for Lincoln to abolish it and they got their wish, along with a lot of bloodshed.

[werdup6]

@SpeedyNeutrino43 Slavery wasn't even the dominant issue being disputed at the outbreak of the civil war, it was about states rights in relation to what the federal government could decree upon those states (poorly worded). Lincoln himself said if he could preserve the Union without freeing any slaves he would do so.

[laFB39]

@werdup6 thank you for finally explaining it correctly, nobody knows or is willing to admit that. the only reason slavery was even a factor was towards the end of the war when the south was kicking the north's ass and lincoln needed to get something to fire his troops up because they were set to give up.

[superyerfdog]

@laFB39 Please, just shut up until you know what you are talking about. The South was doing better at the beginning of the war. At the end they were a ragtag army, and they only had about 3 of their good officers left. Also, HOW CAN YOU SAY NOT SLAVERY WAS A FACTOR YOU MORON THERE WAS AN ENTIRE WAR IN KANSAS ABOUT IT BEFORE. As for saying it was about state's rights, the only right I could think of that the south would really want was the right to own slaves, which I HOPE you know is disgusting.

[robertiacomacci]

@superyerfdog Ummm, you must love being a slave because you are. The fight itself was over being invaded. Secession happened because of tariffs, slavery and tyranny, much like today. Slavery was a factor, but not in the war. Why would people fight to own slaves? I suppose people believe anything that Washington D.C says when it comes to war, like WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION! Please. 

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

@werdup6 ..Yes I'm aware of Lincoln's sentiments about slavery and being from Alabama, I'm also aware of the states rights issues. I was only postulating that the institution of slavery would have become economically impractical, which more and more slave holders were discovering. It was much cheaper to hire a free black man for a salary than to be responsible for everything from feeding him and providing housing to what medical care he received. Thanks for your comments.

[starVol]

The Commie Progressive Liberals have not had this song banned yet?

[tostedcheeseman]

@starVol no but im sure its on their hit list

[EINSilenceDogood]

@ImperatorDominus

This is no longer the national anthem. This is the song of Dixie Land. The land in which you live in. The flag of Dixie does not represent white power or promote racism. It is the flag of my heritage, and for all the southerners born in the great Land of Dixie.

[wogglles]

I love this song. I am doing it for my history song. This is when we have to pick a song and find the instrumental version and make up words for it.

[achillesian]

@wogglles what were the words you ended up with?

[AskTheVillageIdiot]

At the end of the civil war Abraham Lincoln requested dixie. He said it was one of his most favorite songs.

[fearlessfred14]

Not a US military march, nor a Sousa composition. As a military march, its name is "Everybody's Dixie" or "To arms in Dixie", with music by Daniel Emmett and lyrics by Albert Pike, and it is a Confederate march. Sousa was only 7 when Pike wrote the lyrics to this.

[boston3326]

beautiful

[Shatnerpossum]

King Cotton IS NOT DIXIE.

Two different songs people, and this one is Dixie.

[nevaseenamancry]

YES.

[SpeedyNeutrino43]

Bravo from Alabama...and ROLL TIDE

[MrKennelman]

Icedogfan - Quite right sir, written by Daniel Emmet - from Ohio! The Star Spangled Banner was a British drinking song, and the Liberty Bell cast in London. Mason and Dixon were both English, as was George Washington. Doesnt matter really, were all from the human race.

[MrKennelman]

About 20 years ago we drove a car from LA to Washington Once into Texas, and into the South proper I noticed the local affiliates would shut down at night by playing this song often over a video of the confederate flag fluttering in the wind. The pace was slower,and I remember being quite moved by it. Its difficult as a white Brit to really understand the resentment felt by non-whites towards this, just a question of respecting that view I suppose.

[erich4328]

I'm from a long way from here,but from the very first time I heard this tune I wished it was a greater part of my heritage-hell yeah!!!!!!

[icedogfan1]

Correct me if I'm wrong,but John Phillip Sousa did NOT write Dixie's Land

[bull912000]

@icedogfan1

Correct. He wrote I wish I were in the land of cotton.

[rougeleader302]

That is the fact, but the normal song had singing, this is ALL instrumental.

[seeifthisoneworks]

I bet we could take Topeka right now if we wanted to... what do you say, guys?

[tdrocker99]

i dont have to wish i am in the land of cotton

[ebnyprincess10]

In a documentary about Lincoln it was said that it was played at his first inauguration.

[6thfifer]

he loved this song.

[Jamesbarrock]

It's The Blue and the Gray

[bpkeane1]

Its a part of American History and you can't erase it...its in the history books

so get over and stop crying about it...

Fly the Confederate Flag and be proud

of it..

[rougeleader302]

Damn strait, thank you person with a brain! Some one finally gets it.

[CrosslegLuke]

ANd its not USA

If anything its Anti-United States

I'm Glad i'm in the Land of Cotton!

Long Live the Liberation Efforts

[rougeleader302]

Hell ya

[CrosslegLuke]

ZZhaier

this songs name is Dixieland

and is the traditional Anthem of the south

[rbtmdl]

Again Zzahier, youve screwed it up royally. This tune was not written by Sousa at all. It was even written before he was born. Check out Off we go into the wild blue yonder, you have it attributed to Souza and it was written after he died.

[RhythymX6]

Actually, Dixieland was a song of the civil war.I wish I was in the land of cotton was written by Sousa as an Instrumental version

[commando2224]

I wish i was in the land of cotton by sure golyl your feet are r00tten!! look away!! look away!!!! dixie land.

[daranieu]

Its Dixieland! I love this song!

[5umm3rs]

that is the best song in any country

[BobaFettFan]

0:40 1:00 is the best