Irving Kaufman-- I'm All Bound Round With The Mason Dixon Line

[musicmandon1]

I feel that way about Carolina--and I only moved here when I was 37. As I sing in my song "My Cold Northern Home," I wanted to quit the cold weather in the north since I was in high school. I have always had troubled lungs, and headed south the first chance I got, with no plans to return to my birth place, not even in a box if I have any say in that matter.

[bigcuy41]

Lovely old song. Thanks for the posting.

[Corrie121]

This indeed is a lovely song of yearning . The words must be evocative to expatriates from this region. I love the words and the melody and thank you for sharing this post.

[pax41]

Glad to see you thought the same too Walter.  Right now I would venture that most of those Southerners are in the South and not in other parts of the country. The Southern part of the states have not been hit quite as bad by the current economic condition but it is still bad.

[EBI1of76]

I would like add a different thought about this song. The line; "I've read a lot about Heaven, but give me Dixie all the time;" intrigued me. If asked;' Would you chose Heaven or Hell?'; most of us would chose Heaven. But if asked 'Heaven or earth?; many would chose earth. Therefore, those who chose earth when they die will leave home forever never to return. Those fo us who chose Heaven wil be home forever, never to leave again. Chose well. Sola Deo Gloria.

[pax41]

You make a very good case sir!

[JCJasion]

Nice ragtime melody but disturbing words when viewed through today's eyes.

[pax41]

How are the words disturbing on this one? This song has nothing racial in it at all. He is singing about a longing for the places he knew during his youth. This song to me is symbolic of the times, in that people were looking for a slower pace of life.  The South was viewed by many as such a place. Thus songs like Way Down Yonder In New Orleans etc. were very common then.

[JCJasion]

I know, A lot of this stuff was sung in blackface by whites. And during a time when there was a lot of racial prejudice and stereotyping. I guess what is in my mind is that recent incident in Australia with Harry Connick Jr. and that act doing the Jackson 5 in blackface, and Connicks negative reaction to it. He got a lot of harassment for his speaking out about it.

Racisim is still alive and well ( sigh )

[JCJasion]

Don't get me wrong, I'm not criticizing your posting this. This was just my personal reaction to the music. Highly subjective on my part.

[pax41]

I didn't think you were criticizing my post but the song. When I hear this song I don't even get the slightest notion that it would be sung in black face. It sounds more like something a white southerner might sing.

[Pokygirl2001]

Probably the big (and prettymuch only) clue that it'd be a blackface song is the 'mammy' in the first line. Since whites didn't usually refer to a 'mammy' unless it was a nursemaid. They never called their mothers 'mammy' anyway!