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Lesson 21 Originally, I intended to do Dixie. It had the connotation of being a strictly southern song that was associated with racism, and it had been banned in a lot of places. I thought it was unfair, so I made a ballad out of it. A lot of people were not aware that President Lincoln over here, you know that was assassinated after the Civil War, that is the song he requested to be performed on the steps of the White House the day the Civil War was over. Historically it goes a long way back, you know, and it was written by a man from the north of the United States. 'Battle Hymn of the Republic' was written by a man from the south of the United States. I know the song was written for a Broadway play. And 'All My Trials' was initially a slave song - it was called 'All My Sorrows'. So there were the three components of the Civil War. |
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