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Countless lyrical variants of "Dixie" exist, but the version attributed to Dan Emmett and its variations are the most popular. [4] 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.
Dan Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio, then a frontier region. [citation needed]His grandfather, Rev. John Emmett (1759–1847), had been born in Cecil County, Maryland, and after serving as a private in the American Revolutionary War and fighting at the Battle of White Plains in New York and later in Delaware, became a Methodist minister in the then-vast frontier of Augusta County ...
I'm Going Home to Dixie" is an American walkaround, a type of dance song. It was written by Dan Emmett in 1861 as a sequel to the immensely popular walkaround " Dixie ". The sheet music was first published that same year by Firth, Pond & Company in an arrangement by C. S. Grafully .
"Dixie" (a.k.a. "Dixie's Land", "I Wish I Was in Dixie"), Dan Emmett contested, 1859 [28] "Do Fare You Well Ladies" (1840s) [29] "Do I Do I Don't Do Nothing" (1825) [30]
I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, 1860. Note: I Wish I Was In Dixie's Land, better known as Dixie, was written by Daniel Decatur Emmett in 1859 as a closing song for the Bryant Minstrels' performance in New York City. The term "I wish I was in Dixie" was used among circus performers to express their desire to be in the south during the winter.
The pining ex-slave scenario was a common idiom of blackface minstrelsy during the 1850s. Emmett would repeat it in other songs, including "Johnny Roach" and "Dixie". [2] Emmett's later "I'm Going Home to Dixie" reuses the tune to "I Ain't Got Time to Tarry".
The story, now in its third generation, dates to the 1910s or 1920s. It even prompted the local black American Legion post to place a new grave marker on Ben and Lew Snowden's final resting site in 1976, reading, "They taught 'Dixie' to Dan Emmett." [18] Photograph of Dan Emmett taken from the belongings of Ben and Lew Snowden.
The song may be a precursor to "Dixie", as evidenced by its line "Away down south in de Kentuck brake"; [1] in comparison, "Dixie" includes the line, "Away down south in Dixie". The first phrase of "I'm Gwine ober de Mountain" was probably modeled after " The Spinning Wheel ", an older English song.