privateflemming
Corporal
- Joined
- Jul 2, 2019
- Location
- California, USA
I know Fanny Crosby wrote "Dixie for the Union" to the tune of Dixie in 1861 and there were other Union parodies of it but they have different lyrics than the "Union Dixie" version that begins "Away down South in the land of traitors" that is often quoted and said to have been written as a Union parody during the Civil War. Does anyone know the origin of this and when it was actually written? The first reference I can find to the opening line on Googlebooks is from 1951. It just seems like the most well-written version so I'm curious.