Posted on 06/17/2020 6:05:55 PM PDT by Shark24
Just a reminder of the old videos.
I’d like Joan’s version better if she didn’t screw up the lyrics as badly as she did.
“I took a train to Richmond, that fell...”
I’m not sure how she got that from:
“By May the Tenth, Richmond had fell.”
Any song mentioning “Dixie” is racist and should be banned......
I prefer “The Band”’s version.
Yup....and my wife is from Danville...
I was thinking of Levon Helm and this song, a few days ago (ran across the clip from “Shooter”)
“The moment you think you’ve got it figured, you’re wrong”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_jpjQXUyA
I was impressed when I first heard Joan sing this song.
I think it was around 1973 or 4.
Maggie May by Rod Stewart was a hit, as was Shaft, by Issac Hayes. Joan’s voice was wonderful. I’m not even talking about her politics here. Another story song or ballad she sang
was called “Stewball” about a race horse. What a pro she was!
Probably wasn’t an accident. Just sayin’.
I agree - the quaver in Joan Baez’s voice always bothered me.
Plus, the line is “Stoneman’s Cavalry”, not “so much cavalry” (at least I think that’s what she’s saying - can’t tell from the quavering voice).
So this song has special meaning to me because I had a dog named Dixie and when I had to put her down after a long, happy life, this song came on the radio on the way home from the vets. What are the chances of that!
Anyway, Robbie Robertson also wrote one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs.
Ban Elvis!
LOL
Yea, Connecticut Yankee that likes her song.
What about The Dixie Chicks?
Ban Dixie Cups!
“So much cavalry” vs “Stoneman’s Cavalry” (which was correct)
Gen. George Stoneman lead a cavalry raid from East Tennessee into the Danville area in the last year of the war to rip up the tracks. Lee’s line of retreat was to Danville only the supplies he was hoping to find there were scattered or destroyed.
Are you asking if the Dixie Chicks went down???
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