re: Bring it back Ole Miss--Dixie With Love

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It wasn't an issue until Jones made it one

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I disagree. You don't want your student section yelling TSWRA on national TV every Saturday, when most people don't even know what it means. shite most of the KA's and Pike's just say it just to say it and don't even think about it.

I didn't know about this song at Ole Miss until I started researching SEC schools and their traditions this summer.

It's a great one.

actually it makes him a very rare nongay aggie fan

Dey toork are jerrrrbbs!!!

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It wasn't an issue until Jones made it one.

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Incorrect. Networks were giving us shite about it being audible during broadcasts. Guys calling the games were commenting on TSWRA chants during the damned games. For anyone watching an OM game from outside the south, we looked (accurately) like dumbass, racist, shite eating hicks. Students and people in the stands don't hear or see what they look and sound like on TV. The rest of the country sure as hell does...

It was an issue, albeit not a national, CNN, front page of the NYT sized issue, but it was an issue none the less. Combined that with CR protests and it would have gotten very, very bad for us, very, VERY soon. Whether you want to admit it or not is irrelevant.

Jones did the only thing he could. Get out in front of it and give the school and students an opportunity to keep the song and lose the shitty, racist portion.

Students chose, poorly.

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I don't blindly hate the man,

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Good. Because he also brought us Bjork.

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but that was a calculated move on his part and was totally unnecessary.

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Yes, it was most certainly calculated. To keep us out of the national spotlight for racist dumbass bullshite. It was ABSOLUTELY necessary. The students and recently graduated Alumni refused to stop acting like children, forcing Jones to treat the situation like a parent.

If the two of you won't share that candy bar, I'm taking it away from you.

Like I said, I didn't say it and I'm comfortable saying most of my pledge class didn't either

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You need a new tampon, your vag is bleeding

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Clever.

 
Dixie
by Daniel Decatur Emmett of Mount Vernon, Ohio
 
Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten, (Alt Original: Cinnamon seed and sandy bottom,)
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.

In Dixie Land, where I was born in,
early on one frosty mornin',
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.

I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I'll take my stand
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie.
Away, away, away down south in Dixie

Optional Verses

Ole Missus marry "Will the weaver"
Willum was a gay deceiver
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

But when he put his arm around 'er,
He smiled fierce as a forty pounder,
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

His face was sharp as a butcher's cleaver
But that did not seem to grieve 'er
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Ole Missus acted the foolish part
And died for a man that broke her heart
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

Now here's a health to the next ole Missus
An' all the gals that want to kiss us;
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

But if you want to drive 'way sorrow
Come and hear this song tomorrow
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

There's buckwheat cakes and Injun batter,
Makes you fat or a little fatter
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land


Then hoe it down and scratch your gravel,
To Dixie's Land I'm bound to travel,
Look away! Look away! Look away!
Dixie Land

I just wish we had fast Dixie that didn't suck again.

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Am I wrong in thinking that the mass quantities of OOS students who have no ties to FDWL are the majority of people yelling TSWRA just on ignorance and it being the cool thing to do as a Freshmen?

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No, and that's where I take issue with Jones. Every last one of us knew what would happen when he laid down the stop or else decree.