When the Steely Dan song writer was writing the song Deacon Blues his school The Wake Forest Demon Deacons had a football record of 1-10 while at the same time Alabama had a record of 10-1...he put it in the song.
- Roll Tide -
I love that song. Thanks for the background, blam!
Lyricist Donald Fagen has denied the claim in at least two interviews that I know of, one The Wall Street Journal, the other Rolling Stone.
In Rolling Stone, he said this: [I was talking to Walter and he said] 'You mean it's like, 'They call these cracker a--holes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I'm this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?' and I said 'Yeah!' He said, 'Cool, let's finish it.'"