Dixieland Delight Origin…

I hope the facts end the debate about rather it’s Tennessee song or Bama song.

Fact #1. Ronnie Rogers- Born in Nashville Tn.

From Ronnie Rogers himself:

Fact #2. Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him while driving on U.S. Route 11W, a rural highway through Grainger County, Tennessee.

Fact #3 Rogers is a Vols fan- The resident of Franklin, Tennessee said he’s gone to a few Vol games in Knoxville and supports his home-state program.

Fact #4 “I came to a stop sign at a dead-end road,” Rogers said, “and the thought just came “rolling down the backwoods, Tennessee by-way,” which is what I was doing. ‘One arm on the wheel …” and I finished about half of it that day. And the chorus.

“I went home and a guy came to my house asking what songs I’ve written in a week and I played him the half of the song and he said ‘Man, you have to finish that.’

“So, well, I went out in the woods and I didn’t know where I was going. So I look around and there was a white-tail buck deer, a red-tail hawk sitting on a limb and a chubby old groundhog was all around me.

“So I said ‘God, thank you.’ I wrote it all down and they liked it.”

Songwriter Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with Ed Bruce, Dave Dudley, Tanya Tucker and others, recalled to country music journalist Tom Roland that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him while driving on U.S. Route 11W, a rural highway through Grainger County, Tennessee.

So it is 100% fact that when Rogers come up with this song, he wasn’t thinking about anything in Alabama.