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"From Dixie with Love" was created as a mashup of "Dixie" and the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and started being played in the 1980s. [4] [5]Starting around 2004, [1] students at Ole Miss Rebels football game began altering the final line of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic", which ends "His truth is marching on."
"Forward Rebels", also known as "Rebel March", [1] is the fight song for the University of Mississippi. [1] It is played by the Ole Miss "The Pride of the South" marching band at official university sporting events.
Olé is a Spanish interjection used to cheer on or praise a performance commonly used in bullfighting and flamenco dance. [2] In flamenco music and dance, shouts of "olé" often accompany the dancer during and at the end of the performance, and a singer in cante jondo may emphasize the word "olé" with melismatic turns.
"Hail State" is the fight song and rally cry of Mississippi State University.The words and music were written by Joseph Burleson Peavey in 1939. The title of the song was adopted as the official domain name for Mississippi State athletics and for all social media platforms of the athletic department in 2014.
He was a backup quarterback on the Ole Miss Rebels football team that was undefeated in 1962. [3] The team successfully defended their Southeastern Conference championship the following season with Weatherly as their starting quarterback. [2] He subsequently received honorable mention All-American honors in 1964. [3]
During Ole Miss's winning streak of 2003, [51] audiences began chanting "The South will rise again" in place of "His truth is marching on" at the end of the song. The chant remained a staple for the next several years. In 2009, with Ole Miss in the national spotlight for football success, political pressure mounted to do away with the chant.
Emmett's lyrics as they were originally intended reflect the hostile mood of many white Americans in the late 1850s towards increasing abolitionist sentiments in the United States. The song presented the point of view, common to minstrelsy at the time, that slavery in the United States was a positive institution overall.
The song was enthusiastically received in front of 41,000 fans at a formal dedication September 29, 1962, by Governor Barnett in Oxford, as performed by the Ole Miss Marching Band during a halftime of an Ole Miss–Kentucky football game. [6] [7]