Are You from Dixie?--Grandpa Jones

[BillyRosinet]

Damn! He's good. No, correct that. He's great! YeeeeeHaaaawwww!

[Addiskrilla]

@standoman6546 well, thats good to say because no one seem to mention

any thang bout Virginia being a Dixie state. Everywhere else BUT Virginia!!!

WHY!!!??? IT WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE DIXIE. THE GATEWAY TO THE SOUTH!!! IT EVEN HAS THE STATUES OF THE FEDERACYS GREATEST

GENERALS INCLUDING THE ONE AND ONLY PRESIDENT, JEFFERSON

DAVIS!!!!!  IF YOU KNOW YOUR SOUTHERN STATES, YOU BETTER MENTION VIRGINIA!!!!

[brerrabbit77]

@Addiskrilla Well, when you are writing a song, and you want the verses to rhyme, sometimes you have to do what you have to do, and they probably couldn't figure out a way to make it work with "Virginia" in there somewhere. I haven't tried to figure that out myself, maybe somebody else could do it and write another verse to it or something. I don't think for one minute that anyone will seriously think of "Dixie" without including Virginia in it.

[balddad76]

CarolinaNIM...Haralson County Georgia still uses this tune!!!

[Addiskrilla]

Does Virginia count too?

[Standoman6546]

@Addiskrilla Yessir... yessir it does!

[brerrabbit77]

@Addiskrilla Absolutely. Virginia was the home of Robert E. Lee. Richmond was the capitol of the Confederate States during most of the war.

[bci76179]

God bless anyone and everyone from Dixie.

[LumberSree]

This is the song that the University of Southern Mississippi's Dixie Darlings strut onto the football field to (well, the chorus, at least). Proud to be a native Mississippian!

[CarolinaNIM]

@LumberSree Interesting. The chorus of the song was the melody of my high school fight song in the 1960s and 70s. I did not know until doing a search tonight that there was more to the song than just the chorus. I'm not sure why but the song faded out over the years but a group of us from that era will be going to homecoming to sing it again.

[brerrabbit77]

@LumberSree Well, I am glad that there is at least one college somewhere that is not afraid to be connected with Dixie and say so. I went to a big southern university and when I started there in 1968, the school band was called the "Dixie Redcoat Band" and then a few years later they changed it to the "Redcoat Band", removed "Dixie" from the name, just to appease the politically correct crowd.

[GravelGrunt]

Makes me homesick listening. I've ot a tear in my eye. :)

[GravelGrunt]

@GravelGrunt Oh, yeah ... another Kaintuck, but home's in Alabama now when I'm back in the world. :)

[djk28161]

Powerful voice

[roboman3678]

Carolina all the way man

[theewhe]

How can I/we buy a copy of this version?

[SatsumaTengu14]

Alabama is where I am from! Roll Tide!!!

[MONTAGNEVILLE]

WHEN GRANDPA JONES WAS LIVE HE WAS FULL OF ENERGY, JUMPIN AROUND, AND HAVIN FUN WITH THE AUDIENCE.

[SmokinMo11]

@8592291613 Are you from KY?

[benchsteel74]

This feller is from Tennessee.

[79kaddylaccoupe]

Georgia, Dixieland all the way feller!!!

[8592291613]

hello Dixie

[ridgerunner721601]

Damn right I'm from Dixie. The Louisiana/Texas border.

[MegaFaldo]

outstanding

[gilwellpark100]

@photolitherland kisses

[gilwellpark100]

@photolitherland

Get a life, preferably in IRAN

[gilwellpark100]

You bet I"m from Dixie. Born in SOUTHERN Connecticut but raised in Charleston and Key West. Lived in Savannah and Atlanta. Heck, I know more about the South than most Southern born. Serve with the 22nd NC and the 7th Fla Straw Hats. Serve aboard the CSS Florida and the CSS Shannandoa. I stand when I hear DIXIE. We don't have a choice where we are born but we have a choice what culture we want to live with and where we want to live. YOU BET I'M FROM DIXIE.

[RM4FS]

@gilwellpark100 At University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa football games at Legion Field in years past they would troop the Confederate Flag and play, Yeah! Alabama, Are you from Dixie, Bonnie Blue Flag and Dixie before they brought out the US flag and played the Star Spangled Banner

[gilwellpark100]

@RM4FS We did the same at Univ of Florida. Now DIXIE is banned from ALL events that receive tax money. So much for OUR history and OUR Civil Rights or perhaps I should say the History of the United States and the Civil Rights of ALL Americans.

[RM4FS]

@gilwellpark100 Yes Sir I fully agree. I well remember the War Between The States Centennial 1961-1965. I bought a mug, when Governor John M. Patterson spoke, the mug has Rebel in Dress Uniform, a Confederate Flag and the words, "Hell No, I Ain't Fergittin!

[johnbruder01]

thank you....what else can be said?

[LeandroMuntendam]

Yiihaaaaaa hail Dixie baby whoooo whhooooooo

[coolcatevan9]

Love the song

Is Maryland Dixie?

[trashville2010]

@coolcatevan9 The Mason Dixon line was the border between PA and Maryland. Anything south of it is Dixie.

[katjill52301]

Les Claypool needs to cover one of these great tunes from GPJ.Ler on the banjo that would be worth the price of admission!

[13jedwards]

Love it!! I'm from Dixie too!!!!

[13jedwards]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!

[Angryrnmedic]

Indeed Grandpa Jones, Miss Minnie Pearl, those old ones are so very sorely missed. How great they were. May they RIP. RN

[TheZencrook]

Grandpa Jones was one of a kind. By the way, I'm the piano player on this tune;

It was a real pleasure for me to work with Grandpa, Merle Travis, and my dear friend Joe Maphis on this project. Zen Crook

[RM4FS]

He starts with a Rebel Yell !

[purlupumpuim]

waou ! merciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, quel bon homme !! jaime vous etes grands et chapeau bas

[CarlDuke]

For those who may be interested there is a great version of this song which appears as part of a Mitch Miller show salute to Minstrel songs, also including Ida. Look for Sing Along With Mitch (1of 4) and also (2 of 4). 

[CarlDuke]

This song was written in 1915, just two years after Grandpa was born, by George Cobb and the Hall of Fame lyricist Jack Yellen. Grandpa played an old man even as a young singer and eventually grew into the part.

[stud915]

Im from Dixie!! Deo Vindice

[smokymtnrose7]

One of my banjo heros GPJ and String Bean YEAH!!

[Chesterb777]

Doesn't get any better than this!!

[bzdell22]

im from dixie... the land of the cotton!!

[km2711]

Boy..this really brings back a memory!

Getting off the plane --landing in Calif.--(after a 12 month tour in S Vietnam)..this was the first tune i heard blasting in the Terminal!

GREAT rendition by a GREAT Personality!

[melonkali]

Whoa back -- I smell stereotyping. Hubby and I (both in our 60's) have an old farmhouse in the rural South, keep rescue donkeys, too many rescue hound dogs and cats, but we have good, tolerant, friendly neighbors -- even though we're both known card-carrying commies. Our neighbors are young folks, but all were raised in this same rural area. Our doors remain always unlocked. New houses are being built; we will soon have blacks in our area, who will be judged as we all are, by character.

[cjm9822]

wow this was my High School fight song .. starting at Are you from Dixie ..

[PeterbiltTruckin15]

Im from Dxie seriously

[glipzik]

That Grandpa Jones could really get it on!! Lots of energy in them old bones!!

[althazarr]

What a great version of this classic song! I'll send you the Billy Murray & Irving Kaufman version from the 1915. Thanks for sharing this.

[deerducks67]

dont say i dont know what im talking bout either i live in beatrius county

[LesbianVampireLover]

As corny as it was at the time, nothing on TV today compares to Hee-Haw. Not even close. They don't make 'em like this anymore! (Besides, we got to see Barbi Benton every week for a while).

[BannerBombers]

That's why I'm grateful for RFD-TV, which shows Hee Haw eps in order. I DVD each one and put it in my collection. I remember as a kid, calling my friend Marcus. We'd sign off on the phone singing "Where oh Where." You know, I had the biggest crush on Kathy Baker.

[jcald047]

I do and I am. Also have numerous friends of all shapes, sizes and color and love them dearly. Makes me wonder what you've done to make you so unaccepted. I'm sorry that you've been mistreated.

[jcald047]

I wonder if you've ever thought about moving from Dixie, since you feel that way about us. We are, as a whole, just a lot of people who love God, practice "Southern Hospitality", and try to "love our neighbors as ourselves", if they will let us. Sorry you're so unhappy. God Bless!

[TheBanjolover]

Dixie is the shit! Long live Dixie from sweden! :P And hell yea. He was an awesome Banjoplayer and singer.

[allendale1962]

I miss Grandpa and Ramona alot! You should here me bang this tune on the piano! Thanks, Allen dale

[mtnroads]

Hell yeah, Grandpa I'm from Dixie !

[mauricefan]

In case anybodys interested, Grandpa Jones and all the regulars can be seen on Hee Haw on RFD-TV sattelite channel (and cable) on the weekends. Sure brings back a lot of memories.

[km2711]

He was one of the greatest--reminds me of the times back in the '60s watching him on HEE-HAW...

In fact, one of the first shows I wanted to see when coming back from Vietnam back in '69 was Grandpa Jones on Hee-Haw!

[bofts]

Amen to both comments

[willy1514]

Ahh--the master of the clawhammer.

[Lindyblu]

God bless Grandpa Jones! He was one of the best!! RIPGod bless Dixie!!