Tom Lehrer - I Wanna Go Back to Dixie

[caseclosedx94]

"and the honeysuckle clutters up the vine" i love honeysuckle!

[san2chi]

Did anyone look at the picture?

It seems to go more with "I Hold Your Hand in Mine."

Ha!!!

[mabarry3]

@san2chi I think if freddie21 made his video version of "I Hold Your Hand In Mine", it DEFINITELY would have that picture...

[makenna88]

Oh, that's wonderful. "A 1930s "Country Boy Can Survive" to the nth power. Funny picture, too.

[mabarry3]

I live in the Swanee. I'm not scrawny though.

[mabarry3]

Or, as they say in New York ... Sophisticated.

I'd like to illustrate with several hundred examples for you this evening.

LOL

This... DOES ... go too far?

[BecomingAdrian]

@mabarry3 It's probably fine to poke fun at New York at least. They're doin' all right.

[typacsk]

@mabarry3 In the words of Roger Ebert, "I can have a certain respect for a work that goes much, much farther than merely too far."

[MrSpockify]

lol I love the picture, personally. xD

[coolcatevan9]

The south wasnt racist and I have nothing against  blacks but this is hilarious and Great!

[QuisletEsq]

@coolcatevan9 "The South wasn't racist"? So having separate drinking fountains and separate waiting rooms, not letting black people sit at lunch counters, making 4 black people give up their seat on a bus so one white person can sit down (without having to sit next to a black person), etc. wasn't racist?

[elflordbob1]

@QuisletEsq dude thts not rasicm thats how thing s should be lol jk

now thats messed up

and it was only some states like the ones with the jim crow laws

[SatoTM3]

dixie pixie =D

tom lehrer can sing a song in which every word has been replaced with the word poop, and he'd still bring it as gallant art~

[layman2003]

Says much about our history...We need more of an ability to laugh... not forget.. just laugh some. How ridiculous some of the things we did were...Just leave them in the past

[SatoTM3]

@layman2003 and start by doing good stuff instead perhaps? ^^

[flameshadow117]

lol, except for the racism, this doesn't go much more over the top than actual country songs. Though I can still hear Al Jolson rolling over in his grave XD

[ThingsMarchBrings]

I wanna be a dixie pixie to

[yumyummoany]

Hubby brought some grits back from the US - decided it's something you have to grow up with - like tripe!

[makenna88]

@yumyummoany Eh, a lot of it depends on the preparation. Good grits shouldn't feel gritty, more... fluffy. Still some texture, but not crunchy, like some of the instant stuff. XP Also a lot goes by what you put in it. butter, ground pepper, sugar, bacon, hot sauce, shrimp, jack daniels.... But I imagine I'm preaching to the choir here. :)

[Lordboogar]

@makenna88

I can't for the life of me imagine a shrimp or JD in my grits, but yeah... the proper fixin is key.

Some crumbled sausage mixed in and eaten with butter and toast is a very good way to go.

[Opalwitley]

I love Tom. He's the best.

[missnormalee]

Well... I'm offended, but... pleasantly offended. Oh satire.

[irishmauddib]

I am on a mission to contact the man himself, if anyone has a hint on how to do this I would love to hear it and if there is any way to reward you i will do my best

[SolarGranulation]

I believe 6funswede has had some contact with the gentleman in question.

[KozakPridePeter]

He is half jewish half russian, how can he be in modern kkk days?!

P.S sorry my Englesh)

[TheDavynator0]

he much have some German as well because his name is German for teacher,

and your English is fine. :)

[skyclaw441]

What's sad about this song is that it's true... o_0. Great tune, gotta love Tom.

[iloooooovveegoldfish]

that picture makes him look like kasemg on youtube

[Lavarunner]

Anyone else notice that some people in the crowd cheer when he sings about kkk? Racist audience, lol.

[caprice6]

Tom Lehrer is be satire and sarcasm, he is not KKK or a Racist. He is against KKK and Racist.

[SmilingJack100]

What he said ^^^^

[SmilingJack100]

I mean he's a man who was born as a white man, in the 1920's, but yet voted for Barack Obama.

[caprice6]

wow

[VivaRenata]

@SmilingJack100 And do you know why he voted for Obama? Because he's one of the smartest people alive - Tom Lehrer is a genius and everyone who has some hope for a better future for the world and the US should be grateful for Lehrer's endorsement.

[SmilingJack100]

I agree, he's insanely, smart, why do you have to tell me this? I was remarking on how progressive he was.

[MisterHowe]

Are you certain that the endorsement wasn't satirical, like nearly everything else he's done?

[TearisShatteredMoon]

@MisterHowe better yet why does it matter? You don't have to agree with someones politics or disagree to enjoy them

[ashman165]

Perhaps you lack a good understanding of what it is a satirist actually does. People applaud at the clever way in which he lambastes the south. Consider your word for the day to be "irony".

[erra404]

That wasn't a cheer, that was a laugh.

[saki42]

april 1st everything was upside down

[imorio]

song starts at 0:57

[princesslisa82]

reminds me of a few family members. lol

[SmilingJack100]

lol!

[EvilDoctorMeow]

how the hell did you type that upsidedown?

[Oldiesmann]

It's done by using special foreign characters that appear to be upside-down letters. Google it for more info.

[EvilDoctorMeow]

ahh i see well it was pretty interesting

[sh0gun98]

¡ʇs⇂ lıɹdɐ ʎddɐɥ

[agentbong138]

Put on that white sheet again.

[Auggie56]

Got some-thin agin the South Mr Lehrer ? LoL

[gaiacaecilia]

hasn't everyone except possibly those from the deep south?

[mashpeewee1]

heard it nearly 50 years ago!  Just as irreverent now as it was then...

[twitcher64]

Really? Nice. His voice changed quite a bit. I watched a recent rendition of him singing "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park". He seems more rushed in that rendition.

[homestarfan2008]

Excellent! This is EXACTLY why I need to move out of Texas. It's racist (yeah still), the laws are from the 19th century and in East Texas, you wouldn't have trouble finding inbreds or lynchings.

[darkmeridian13]

AHAHAHAHA... I love Tom Lehrer!! My friend sent this to me because my name is Dixie! xD

(I don't live in the south though... :P)

[englishteacherguy]

Good to hear this again. Thanks.

[CrimsonPhantom88]

Wow, never heard before. Thanks! Tom Lehrer is a genius!

[bobdafrogg]

I've never heard this one before-- thanks for posting!