Gents. Great song. I haven’t heard it before and have been intrigued with the comments below. My opinion, you can’t erase or rewrite history, only learn from it. Great song! Regards from the UK. Bob
Brad Pitt as Jesse James sings it in the 2007 film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". Worth a look, it is a good film and will help you understand the context.
Unreconstructed, and damn proud of it. Both my paternal great grandfather's fought in the Confederacy, Private Joseph Irvin Hawkins, 11th TN Cavalry, 2nd Lt William Masey, 35th TN Infantry. Neither "swallowed the dog", and neither will I.
Unfortunately I had family on both sides of this war. Thank God we have been able to breed out or through death clear my family reputation. No more blue coats left in all living members of family now. I believe some of the folks in yankee county are starting to see the truth. God bless Mr.Lee and Dixie Land. God’s blessings on all the Sons of the Confederacy who died defending the old south.
These men had balls to sing this song. As a New Yorker all I can say is good on them! Saying what you want without fear is getting harder to do, even if it's an old song-based hallmark of dark days. Well done gents!
Greetings from Argentina, beautiful song. Here we had a similar phenomenon with the Argentine Confederation (1831 - 1852) led by Juan Manuel de Rosas against Unitarians (similar to Unionists). Many of us are still nostalgic for the Confederation of Rosas. God bless you.
Ditto! Ain't they all! And the policy of divide and conquer is alive and well, more effective than ever thanks to the media. I have plenty of " personal politics " opinions, but the bottom line is that all us poor have more in common than with ANY RICH PEOPLE. Eyes on the prize, which would be economic justice or at least something closer! No politicians have our backs. They are one and all in the pockets of the fat cats.
This song truly does paint a beautifully gray picture of your average soldier during the war. Most nowadays see the civil war as black and white. Slavery vs Freedom. When, in fact, there were far more issues. Many don't look at the struggles the south faced. While the north was establishing economics based on massive textile, railroad, and industry companies, the south struggled to keep up. Most of what the south had was farming and ranching. Not to say slavery wasn't a big part in the war, as seen in the Bleeding Kansas incident, but there were far more issues related to the causation of the war. A friend of mine has a letter written by his great-great-grandfather which, in summary, wrote that he didn't care about slaves or the preservation of the constitution. He fought because rising taxation put a toll on his wages. He sent his earnings back to his family to put food on the table, and fought against the unjust taxation running rampant across southern states. These were all still people. People fighting for what was best for them. But society puts a big sticker on their backs that says, "bad". Because the victor decides the truth of history.
Oh man, thanks again for knowing your history. Those who don't know it are doomed to repeat it, yes? And then we don't learn, ad infinitum. Aside from the best music EVER, old-time is our fucking HISTORY, god bless ❤️
Speaking as a "Yankee," I can tell you that I love this song. It has real passion. Unlike the modern drivel that we are subjected to today that is completely devoid of any real feelings at all. This song has real human emotion. I've got to respect. and even love that.
As a mixed man born and raised in the south, this is some good ol music. Im just tired of so many people out there wanting to erase it and stuff like it.
Oh, you are right! I'm dumb. Rebel music all we have, ; the system is fucked overall and we're brainwashed. "Right " and " Left " mean nothing. The big corporations rule and the constitution is being treated like a joke by EVERY politician. Big picture, you've got more in common with your poor neighbors down the road than with any rich person. Divide and conquer by focusing on emotional politics and forget about equity, decency, and god forbid actual freedom. This is basically 1984 no matter what angle you're seeing it from.
Howdy from the South! Great job sending Jan II over to defend Vienna back in the day. When I visited Vienna I asked where the fallen soldiers who defended the city from destruction were buried, the Catholic priest turned white as a ghost and refused to discuss it any further. Years later I was shocked to read that when the Poles sent Vienna a statue of Jan II to commemorate the victory, the city officials returned it! While I can't speak or understand any Polish, I love the song "Hej, sokoły!"
Southern born and raised, from my perspective poland seems like a great place and one of the few european countries that hasn't gone insane. Take a tour, see the sights, discover the history but don't be too quick to leave your homeland permanently.
@@slackjaw4270 Howdy friend! Yes, we here commemorate Jan III as not only one of our greatest kings, but one of the most skilled military commanders in our history. And as a great defender of Christendom, of course. Austrians don't really like to admit that someone had to save them from total annihilation, and as far as im aware, there is only one statue of him in Vienna, and even few years before, they tried to take it down because it "offended turkish minority in Vienna" 😂 So the woke disease is present almost everywhere, but not so much in my country, at least not yet.
@@yerbudspud It's my dream to see Dixie one day, especially Texas and Alabama. I love it's culture and people. And like Poland, Deep South seems like the last place in America resisting all this madness. Never give up your 2nd Amendment. Your rights. The land of your ancestors. And your heritage.
I'm from Germany, it's midnight, I have no idea how I got here, all I can say is this is a great interpretation and I kind of wish I could've been there to see this live. Atmosphere seems great honestly. I probably won't be able to get this tune out of my head for a week or so. Sure, the lyrics are out there, especially from today's standpoint, but this was written almost 200 years ago after losing a years-long war. History often isn't pretty and the parts we perceive as ugly should be remembered just as much as what we perceive as good, anything less is lacking in integrity and authenticity. Thank you guys for keeping history alive.
I’m from southern born n raised ancestors. My Fathers family were confederate soldiers and ranking officers. I’m very proud of my people and my heritage!!! I love this song and your humor
That last little bit was succinctly put. I may not be Northern Yankee nor a Johnny Reb, I hold little love for the Federal government and mourn some of our checkered past. But I am glad that we are all Americans and we have a national dream to aspire to. North, South, Mid-West, Southwest, West Coast. It's all our good fortune to be countrymen and share in the same future.
I am from Europa and this is my first time I heard this southern patriotic song, in my all life. And, I like it, even I am not American. Why?! Because, it show all us how is still present, in the southern lands, today an Confederacy mentality and patriotism, after 159 years, when the war was lost, on a very tragic way. And not just that! Is still present southern free Will for fight for own human rights and rights for Old Free South. And, of course, love of own people and race too, between that present people. Be proud about that song today, free people of Old South and never forget the Glory of the Old South, the Confederacy of the Free American States and your countries national flags. And, of course, this post-war rebel song and your war flag too, what even I like it. Because, that was a good fight against the Yankees and for all rights, and demands, what the South got it, even today, in this Yankee USA. Be saluted, my dear White people! I love you and respect you all around your beautiful southern States. PS: Sorry about my not perfect language!
😂😂😂😂😂 Americans and english speakers are very tolerant of those who don't speak perfect english and God bless you, sir....... And also I respect anybody that can speak more than one language!!
@@ChrisPrice-rr4cy Well, first, thanks for your tolerance, about the language! I got 50 years old and English/American is my first foreign language, what I speak, hope, enough well. I am from Europa and I also know a little bit of German, Italian and French language too. But, French is for me more hard than English or German language. But, that is still an Aryan language, like English, Italian, German or Croatian. PS: English people said for French that is a frog language. 😂What you think about that and do you know French language too? Because, French is also present on the South, like in Louisiana. Be saluted and long living for our White race!
@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh No sir I don't know any french, But I am learning to speak spanish. We have a growing Hispanic population in Northeast Florida which is where I am from. And I'm so proud of my Southern heritage which I am deeply rooted in.
Spotify say that I am within .01% of your listeners this year and your even my top artist, and hell maybe even last year and the year before. Love you all
Thank you for keeping history alive especially in a time like this. Freedom is being thrown out the door left right and center and honestly as a Texan it is nice that history, even while some may try and destroy it instead of preserve and remember it no matter its context, is being kept alive in some way. As a historian I tip my hat to you and as a proud Texan I thank you.
This is courage. Glad to see the history kept intact despite the politically charged environment we find ourselves in. Keep the spirit alive and play on!
100% a yankee but quite enjoyed the song. Made me think about the complexity of war. Even today we tend to paint history with a broad brush. Did the confederacy practice slavery of course, were all confederates slave holders (no thats far from the case). Was the union purely a noble force of good who just desperately wanted to free the slaves... (no some union soldiers were passionate about the cause) but when it came to all the politicians even abraham lincoln himself once said that his goal wasnt really related to slavery at all, it just happened to go together well with his ambitions for the unions. "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union." Needless to say this songs interesting to hear as it expresses the confederate sides frustrations and didain with the union, and the victors typically neglect to acknowledge such pieces. But truthfully in most wars this happens in one way or another. Just gets lost in the Ether due to the victors telling their side of the story. Glad this piece is preserved.
Thanks very much for your well-considered, nuanced, and obviously above-average informed opinion. As you note, the Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves of the States in Rebellion and not of the Union states - 'Door # 3' of Lincoln's choices. Major Randolph's deep bitterness stems more from the post-war Reconstruction and occupation of the defeated south. Had Lincoln lived, who knows if many of today's persistent issues might well have been avoided or greatly lessened.
The confederate states of America did not fight for slavery but the right for each state to vote laws into effect. If we were given that right I guarantee 80% of slave states would've been free states, especially considering the average Confederate didn't even own slaves and most who did only owned one to help with chores. The big plantations we know were owned by the rich, white, black Spanish etc
My entire family including me was born and raised in the south! Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia. Southern Civil War era music always sings to my soul. I had several members of my family who fought and some died, in the Civil War. God Bless our great nation called The United States of America!
Many nations admired America and its freedom. But that charm passed when Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Lennon were assassinated in your country. So the big question is who is the real evil empire. And who created the covid battle virus, after all. It wasn't Russia that dug up the graves of those who died of Spanish flu in Alaska! No, America, God is definitely not with you! Or is it not God at all, but Satan!
This version is preformed better than any other I've heard. You can really hear the sneer in the vocals that I think mirrors the intention of the music had perfectly.
As a NATIVE SOUTHERNER and a NATIVE VIRGINIAN, with 250 plus years of heritage here in my home State with many Confederate Ancestors on both sides of my family, I APPROVE AND LOVE THIS SONG!! DEO VINDICE!!!!🤠
Gentlemen you Are, from the south, and proud you Are, rebel women loves you My wife Dorthe for 47 years says you Are just what men should always be, and she is from cork irland
You know jeb Stuart Robert e Lee and traveler and All the southern soldiers in heaven is just so proud of your music, home is were your heart is, and the south is their home
I'm a black and a southern woman. The comments had me wondering how "bad" this was gonna be 😂 It's honestly very catchy and an interesting piece of history. Very fun. USA 🇺🇲
Southern women are always welcome, whatever their color. I think you'll find most people wanting a free South is because of what is happening to the rest of the nation.
Proud Charleston South Carolina born and raised. My Great Great Granddaddy and his brothers where there when the first shots were fired. I'm mighty proud of my Confederate Family
The South was pressed to attacking the North first. Why? Because, the South wasn't well prepared for long and so brutal war, against the North. Lee and Stonewall Jackson knew that! So, the South needed fast and short war against own enemy. The battle of Gettysburg, in 1863, was crucial about that. If general Lee was won that battle and captured Washington, then the war will be over in that year. Sadly, the battle was lost and all was ending on very tragic way. Especially for the South and all Dixie population, after 1865. But, the South is still today proud, brave and even willing to fight again, against the terror and dominance of the Yankees. I am talking about today USA and former southern CSA States. So, my sympathy and empathy today goes to you. Not Yankees! Be saluted and stay White, like always you was! Long Live Old South and R. E. Lee!
This song is really neat to listen to in the modern day, especially being a history nerd. Its so beautiful holding such a dark meaning and such dark lyrics. The irony of man.
I’m really sad this group disbanded. I love everything about these videos, from the music to the costumes and ambience. The American south has such beautiful and fascinating culture, it’s a real shame how people demonize it and portray southerners as stupid and uneducated. And I’m saying all this as a young non-American coloured person.
Listening to this from Pennsylvania. My mother is in the daughters of the american revolution, I also have ancestors that fought for the north. I think the south should have been allowed to leave the union without violence and formed their own nation if that's what they wanted.
I agree with you one hundred percent, There is, Absolutely no reason for all the death and destruction that occurred....... And also I might add the war Crimes that were perpetrated against the southern civilian population by General Sherman's army that destroyed everything in their path. And had the Blessing of the perpetrator lincoln And that drunken bastard general grant.
You men are simply amazing !! Love all of your music! Like I tell everyone ,my family fought for the right side in The Revolution but the wrong side in the Civil War. They say " oh your family fought for the south"??? I say "NO-THEY FOUGHT FOR THE NORTH "!!!! It was not fought over slavery - it was fought over State's Rights and sure looks like we need State's Rights now !
If you look at the Declaration of Causes from the seceding states you’ll see the war was in fact over slavery. The language in the Texas Declaration is particularly eye opening.
I just finished watching the livestream of your Nov 15th 2024 concert. As always it did my heart good to see and hear you, and I will truly, deeply, miss you. I pray that the coming years are kind to you and all you hold dear. Really, I just wanted to say Thank You. The music, the inspiration, and the history that you have enriched us with will live in my heart forever. My family and I just ordered all your CDs. We'll treasure them and teach our children to treasure them too. These songs will live forever, and so will the South! You have been part of ensuring it. Thank you, a million times, thank you. 💝 Deo Vindice
"Я не был реконструирован, мне плевать на ваши свободы и Декларацию" - самые главные и запоминающиеся строчки в этой прекрасной песне. Слава Югу. I have not been reconstructed, I don't care about your freedoms and Declaration" - the most important and memorable lines in this beautiful song. Glory to the South.
I think I'm a good Ole Rebel, born and raised in NYC and the Hudson Valley which are home to the great Civil War battle, The NYC Draft Riots of July 1863 which left 10,000+dead NY'ers!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Yes, that's what I did, in the lockdown I watched North and South, but at school we were going to learn about the Civil War but they said it's too complicated even when my dad was at school they said it's too complicated and political, I don't know if the American Civil War is as relevant in school in Britain, though. I really wanna visit the American South one day or visit the old battlegrounds. Never stop uploading these, God bless you!
"I give no offense, you choose to take offense. What's worse, you choose to take offense for others that's madness!" John Cleese (Monty Python) Regards, Andy, Annmarie's husband
I thought this was a poem. I was a permanent substitute in a high school and I used to go around and read this poem and a few others in a book of Confederate poetry to the kids in different classes. That was the 1980's. They probably wouldn't let me do the same thing now.
@@brucebostick2521the North had slaves at least 7 years after the Confederacy was no more not only that but they committed rape not only that but they raped women children burned everything in the weather had something to do with slaves or not and they committed genocide and technically we're still having genocide committed on us because we're our history is being erased meaning we're still being genocided in modern era meaning of the Yankees are still pieces of s*** worse than the Nazis
I AM FROM NEW YORK CITY AND I AM ASAHMED OF THE LIBERAL FITH THAT IS ALL AROUND ME I ADORE YOU GUYS YOU ARE NOTHING SHORT OF BRILLIANT SIMPLY BRILLIANT YOU ARE A TRUE CREDIT TO AMERICA
Ive never heard this song before but with the world we are living in it fills me with fire and speaks to me in such a way. I'm not a southerner (Illinois) but I dont feel like a Yankee either. Beautiful performance fellas!
I Am very proud of my southern heritage I have I fly periodically out in my front yard. The confederate states of America not the battle flag, but I’m very proud of my heritage.
Y'all can even make a disclaimer sound entertaining
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA....
You try to get in front of a crowd and perform some of the best songs ever made. THEN you can talk 😂
Play on gentlemen, play on.
Gents. Great song. I haven’t heard it before and have been intrigued with the comments below. My opinion, you can’t erase or rewrite history, only learn from it. Great song!
Regards from the UK. Bob
Brad Pitt as Jesse James sings it in the 2007 film "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". Worth a look, it is a good film and will help you understand the context.
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Unreconstructed, and damn proud of it. Both my paternal great grandfather's fought in the Confederacy, Private Joseph Irvin Hawkins, 11th TN Cavalry, 2nd Lt William Masey, 35th TN Infantry. Neither "swallowed the dog", and neither will I.
My brother and I share a ggf who rode with Forrest - 7th Tenn. Cavalry. God bless 'em all !
Unfortunately I had family on both sides of this war. Thank God we have been able to breed out or through death clear my family reputation. No more blue coats left in all living members of family now. I believe some of the folks in yankee county are starting to see the truth. God bless Mr.Lee and Dixie Land. God’s blessings on all the Sons of the Confederacy who died defending the old south.
Mine too!
Good man.
Move to Canada if you don’t like these United States.
Why don’t you Commies ever just move on out.
These men had balls to sing this song. As a New Yorker all I can say is good on them! Saying what you want without fear is getting harder to do, even if it's an old song-based hallmark of dark days. Well done gents!
“ you may sing a song like that and get criticized, but you ain’t breakin’ the law.” Fuck yes.
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"It was only a request"
"Well I got a request o' my own-I'm a good 'ol rebel!"
"These are real nice hands, wanna keep 'em?"
I was waiting for a Long Riders reference, Damn good movie😊
Greetings from Argentina, beautiful song. Here we had a similar phenomenon with the Argentine Confederation (1831 - 1852) led by Juan Manuel de Rosas against Unitarians (similar to Unionists). Many of us are still nostalgic for the Confederation of Rosas. God bless you.
Dixie or not, keep that music alive. It is oh so beautiful.
Oh boy. We are in for a treat. Looking forward to a fiery performance, pards!
“Rich man’s war, poor man’s fight.”
Ain't they all ?
"Alte Männer erklären den Krieg - junge müssen sterben." - "Old men declare the war - young men have to die"
Ditto! Ain't they all! And the policy of divide and conquer is alive and well, more effective than ever thanks to the media. I have plenty of " personal politics " opinions, but the bottom line is that all us poor have more in common than with ANY RICH PEOPLE. Eyes on the prize, which would be economic justice or at least something closer! No politicians have our backs. They are one and all in the pockets of the fat cats.
This song truly does paint a beautifully gray picture of your average soldier during the war. Most nowadays see the civil war as black and white. Slavery vs Freedom. When, in fact, there were far more issues. Many don't look at the struggles the south faced. While the north was establishing economics based on massive textile, railroad, and industry companies, the south struggled to keep up. Most of what the south had was farming and ranching. Not to say slavery wasn't a big part in the war, as seen in the Bleeding Kansas incident, but there were far more issues related to the causation of the war. A friend of mine has a letter written by his great-great-grandfather which, in summary, wrote that he didn't care about slaves or the preservation of the constitution. He fought because rising taxation put a toll on his wages. He sent his earnings back to his family to put food on the table, and fought against the unjust taxation running rampant across southern states. These were all still people. People fighting for what was best for them. But society puts a big sticker on their backs that says, "bad". Because the victor decides the truth of history.
Well said, friend !
You at least looked at actual history, that's more like it.
Oh man, thanks again for knowing your history. Those who don't know it are doomed to repeat it, yes? And then we don't learn, ad infinitum. Aside from the best music EVER, old-time is our fucking HISTORY, god bless ❤️
I love your caption. This song is living history and tells us more about how people felt at the time than any history lesson can teach you
Speaking as a "Yankee," I can tell you that I love this song. It has real passion. Unlike the modern drivel that we are subjected to today that is completely devoid of any real feelings at all. This song has real human emotion. I've got to respect. and even love that.
THANK you. Seriously. Thank you !
good comment I feel the same. I have this song on my phone and I have never even been to the south.
Great love from Tennessee, sir. We respect you my dear Yankee. Your a Yankee we tolerate.
@@ColbyGraves 😁 My nephew (Georgia born and raised) always tells me I'm ok for a damned Yankee. 👍😉
@@bdickinson6751 yessir
As a mixed man born and raised in the south, this is some good ol music. Im just tired of so many people out there wanting to erase it and stuff like it.
Greetings from Flanders, Belgium. Nowadays we all have to rebel and fight for our freedom
This song has new meaning today. Being a Patriot is being a Rebal. It is loving what America stood for, not what it has become.
Amen. Love to you from England
Oh, you are right! I'm dumb. Rebel music all we have, ; the system is fucked overall and we're brainwashed. "Right " and " Left " mean nothing. The big corporations rule and the constitution is being treated like a joke by EVERY politician.
Big picture, you've got more in common with your poor neighbors down the road than with any rich person.
Divide and conquer by focusing on emotional politics and forget about equity, decency, and god forbid actual freedom. This is basically 1984 no matter what angle you're seeing it from.
Rebel*
I will delete this comment if you reply cause I'm trying to make us look better. Spelling words wrong makes our cause look bad.
America and the south confederacy hated each other. Did you listen to the song?
#FreeDixie
I'm from Poland but God willing, one day i will settle down in the South and live a peaceful life.
Howdy from the South! Great job sending Jan II over to defend Vienna back in the day. When I visited Vienna I asked where the fallen soldiers who defended the city from destruction were buried, the Catholic priest turned white as a ghost and refused to discuss it any further. Years later I was shocked to read that when the Poles sent Vienna a statue of Jan II to commemorate the victory, the city officials returned it! While I can't speak or understand any Polish, I love the song "Hej, sokoły!"
Southern born and raised, from my perspective poland seems like a great place and one of the few european countries that hasn't gone insane. Take a tour, see the sights, discover the history but don't be too quick to leave your homeland permanently.
@@slackjaw4270 Howdy friend! Yes, we here commemorate Jan III as not only one of our greatest kings, but one of the most skilled military commanders in our history. And as a great defender of Christendom, of course. Austrians don't really like to admit that someone had to save them from total annihilation, and as far as im aware, there is only one statue of him in Vienna, and even few years before, they tried to take it down because it "offended turkish minority in Vienna" 😂 So the woke disease is present almost everywhere, but not so much in my country, at least not yet.
@@yerbudspud It's my dream to see Dixie one day, especially Texas and Alabama. I love it's culture and people. And like Poland, Deep South seems like the last place in America resisting all this madness. Never give up your 2nd Amendment. Your rights. The land of your ancestors. And your heritage.
Welcome Brother.
I'm from Germany, it's midnight, I have no idea how I got here, all I can say is this is a great interpretation and I kind of wish I could've been there to see this live. Atmosphere seems great honestly. I probably won't be able to get this tune out of my head for a week or so.
Sure, the lyrics are out there, especially from today's standpoint, but this was written almost 200 years ago after losing a years-long war. History often isn't pretty and the parts we perceive as ugly should be remembered just as much as what we perceive as good, anything less is lacking in integrity and authenticity. Thank you guys for keeping history alive.
I’m from southern born n raised ancestors. My Fathers family were confederate soldiers and ranking officers. I’m very proud of my people and my heritage!!! I love this song and your humor
God Bless Dixie from Western Kentucky 🤘❤
Hod bless you sir
god bless you sir
Does anyone remember this song from the movie " The Long Riders"? Great movie. Great song.
I remember it Brother! I am glad i ant the only one ! Damm good movie and Song .
That last little bit was succinctly put. I may not be Northern Yankee nor a Johnny Reb, I hold little love for the Federal government and mourn some of our checkered past. But I am glad that we are all Americans and we have a national dream to aspire to. North, South, Mid-West, Southwest, West Coast. It's all our good fortune to be countrymen and share in the same future.
So you're a Westerner?
VERY well said ! Thanks !!
As always, great job and keep it up! Thank you for keeping this music alive.
Great song, honest and proud, full of heart. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Excellent job on the song gentlemen! Deo vindice from Georgia!
I've waited more than 10 years for this to be posted, and here it is.
Thanks for your patience... All good things come to those who wait... or so I hear.
I am from Europa and this is my first time I heard this southern patriotic song, in my all life. And, I like it, even I am not American. Why?! Because, it show all us how is still present, in the southern lands, today an Confederacy mentality and patriotism, after 159 years, when the war was lost, on a very tragic way. And not just that! Is still present southern free Will for fight for own human rights and rights for Old Free South. And, of course, love of own people and race too, between that present people. Be proud about that song today, free people of Old South and never forget the Glory of the Old South, the Confederacy of the Free American States and your countries national flags. And, of course, this post-war rebel song and your war flag too, what even I like it. Because, that was a good fight against the Yankees and for all rights, and demands, what the South got it, even today, in this Yankee USA. Be saluted, my dear White people! I love you and respect you all around your beautiful southern States. PS: Sorry about my not perfect language!
Don't worry, you did well. Thank you.
@@LovecraftianEburnea Thank you and I really like your comment about my language! Bye!
😂😂😂😂😂 Americans and english speakers are very tolerant of those who don't speak perfect english and God bless you, sir....... And also I respect anybody that can speak more than one language!!
@@ChrisPrice-rr4cy Well, first, thanks for your tolerance, about the language! I got 50 years old and English/American is my first foreign language, what I speak, hope, enough well. I am from Europa and I also know a little bit of German, Italian and French language too. But, French is for me more hard than English or German language. But, that is still an Aryan language, like English, Italian, German or Croatian. PS: English people said for French that is a frog language. 😂What you think about that and do you know French language too? Because, French is also present on the South, like in Louisiana. Be saluted and long living for our White race!
@DaliborPerkovic-sw8mh No sir I don't know any french, But I am learning to speak spanish. We have a growing Hispanic population in Northeast Florida which is where I am from. And I'm so proud of my Southern heritage which I am deeply rooted in.
southern zeal and fire is still alive and well
Beautifully played. Support from Georgia
Thank you for posting! You have an excellent band.
I'm a damn Yankee.
I love this.
Only people who are willing to enter the arena become friends.
Am from Scotland 🏴🏴 Aberdeenshire you guys are like us Scottish people whiskey drinking land 😊😊😊😊😊 arms across the water brother's
Most of our families came from Scotland/Ireland, ScottsIrish. God Bless.
My stars & bars fly every day
Spotify say that I am within .01% of your listeners this year and your even my top artist, and hell maybe even last year and the year before. Love you all
Thank you for keeping history alive especially in a time like this. Freedom is being thrown out the door left right and center and honestly as a Texan it is nice that history, even while some may try and destroy it instead of preserve and remember it no matter its context, is being kept alive in some way. As a historian I tip my hat to you and as a proud Texan I thank you.
We love Texas ! Thanks for the kind word !
@hagank1111 only one thing wrong with texass, it's full of texans
This is courage. Glad to see the history kept intact despite the politically charged environment we find ourselves in. Keep the spirit alive and play on!
No politics. It's a great tune from the people who fought a long bloody conflict. It is a part of hour nation's history.
Makes me want to grab a good ol' bottle of Bourbon and sit by a campfire.. Thanks for keeping your history alive!
Major Randolph's frustration is emphasized through this song. It brought me to tears.
Outstanding performance fellas.
Here from Norway, Many Norwegians fought for you! 🇳🇴🤝🏻❌
I think there should be a remake with the ATF in mind, that would be great.
100% a yankee but quite enjoyed the song. Made me think about the complexity of war. Even today we tend to paint history with a broad brush. Did the confederacy practice slavery of course, were all confederates slave holders (no thats far from the case). Was the union purely a noble force of good who just desperately wanted to free the slaves... (no some union soldiers were passionate about the cause) but when it came to all the politicians even abraham lincoln himself once said that his goal wasnt really related to slavery at all, it just happened to go together well with his ambitions for the unions.
"My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
Needless to say this songs interesting to hear as it expresses the confederate sides frustrations and didain with the union, and the victors typically neglect to acknowledge such pieces. But truthfully in most wars this happens in one way or another. Just gets lost in the Ether due to the victors telling their side of the story. Glad this piece is preserved.
Thanks very much for your well-considered, nuanced, and obviously above-average informed opinion. As you note, the Emancipation Proclamation freed only the slaves of the States in Rebellion and not of the Union states - 'Door # 3' of Lincoln's choices. Major Randolph's deep bitterness stems more from the post-war Reconstruction and occupation of the defeated south. Had Lincoln lived, who knows if many of today's persistent issues might well have been avoided or greatly lessened.
The confederate states of America did not fight for slavery but the right for each state to vote laws into effect. If we were given that right I guarantee 80% of slave states would've been free states, especially considering the average Confederate didn't even own slaves and most who did only owned one to help with chores. The big plantations we know were owned by the rich, white, black Spanish etc
Nobody was pure in that fight. And we're all suffering from some of the consequences to this day but defending slavery..really??
Rousing song! Performed beautifully as always. The disclaimer at the beginning was golden 😂
I am proud to be southern and I am proud to have had family who fought for the confederacy, long live the south! -a southwestern Virginian
Me too.
The way you would’ve been stoned in the CSA is just…peak
Democrats ancestors.
My entire family including me was born and raised in the south! Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Georgia. Southern Civil War era music always sings to my soul. I had several members of my family who fought and some died, in the Civil War. God Bless our great nation called The United States of America!
Many nations admired America and its freedom. But that charm passed when Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Lennon were assassinated in your country. So the big question is who is the real evil empire. And who created the covid battle virus, after all. It wasn't Russia that dug up the graves of those who died of Spanish flu in Alaska! No, America, God is definitely not with you! Or is it not God at all, but Satan!
I honestly love this song so much. Our heritage is a important part of American History. We shall not be forgotten about!
Music starts at 03:05.
This version is preformed better than any other I've heard. You can really hear the sneer in the vocals that I think mirrors the intention of the music had perfectly.
Keep that rebel spirit alive :)
As a NATIVE SOUTHERNER and a NATIVE VIRGINIAN, with 250 plus years of heritage here in my home State with many Confederate Ancestors on both sides of my family, I APPROVE AND LOVE THIS SONG!! DEO VINDICE!!!!🤠
Anytime I listen to this, I think of how two of my relatives fought and died on the Confederate line, 56th Georgia during the battle of Vicksburg.
so tought and good song!!! please keep singing it! Jani, from Hungary
Gentlemen you Are, from the south, and proud you Are, rebel women loves you My wife Dorthe for 47 years says you Are just what men should always be, and she is from cork irland
Splendid! Greetings from Italy!
“Doors everywhere “ …I couldn’t have put it better. Salute!
One of the best dang songs there ever was. If at first you don’t secede………!!!!
Keep that rebel spirit alive! All the best from Portugal!
Angola é nossa!
You know jeb Stuart Robert e Lee and traveler and All the southern soldiers in heaven is just so proud of your music, home is were your heart is, and the south is their home
One of my favorites.
That tragic war never should have happened.Slavery wasn't the only issue.
were it not for the linconites, the war never would have happened.
Slavery wasn't the only issue it was just the main issue
I'm a black and a southern woman. The comments had me wondering how "bad" this was gonna be 😂 It's honestly very catchy and an interesting piece of history. Very fun. USA 🇺🇲
HEY !!! YOURE NOT ALLOWED HERE !!! the sheer audacity....
Jk😉 have a good day
Southern women are always welcome, whatever their color. I think you'll find most people wanting a free South is because of what is happening to the rest of the nation.
Proud Charleston South Carolina born and raised. My Great Great Granddaddy and his brothers where there when the first shots were fired. I'm mighty proud of my Confederate Family
CSA 💙🫡
The South was pressed to attacking the North first. Why? Because, the South wasn't well prepared for long and so brutal war, against the North. Lee and Stonewall Jackson knew that! So, the South needed fast and short war against own enemy. The battle of Gettysburg, in 1863, was crucial about that. If general Lee was won that battle and captured Washington, then the war will be over in that year. Sadly, the battle was lost and all was ending on very tragic way. Especially for the South and all Dixie population, after 1865. But, the South is still today proud, brave and even willing to fight again, against the terror and dominance of the Yankees. I am talking about today USA and former southern CSA States. So, my sympathy and empathy today goes to you. Not Yankees! Be saluted and stay White, like always you was! Long Live Old South and R. E. Lee!
Very good song and band
As a black ----AMERICAN =---thank you for not letting them erase this valuable awesome history of our great country 😍😄😄🤩🤩🤩
who is them?
@@pugo7925 "Them" probably refers to politically correct woke a-holes. Just a guess.
This song is really neat to listen to in the modern day, especially being a history nerd. Its so beautiful holding such a dark meaning and such dark lyrics. The irony of man.
Yeah, irony abounds but the message is evil. It's enlightening, sure, but in the most depressing way.
How cheerful to hear such enthusiasm and pride!
Yep ! We're a pretty cheery bunch alright !! Thanks for your comment !
Loosers Hym of the rebels.😂
@@mikedavis4851 And some people say Southerners are uneducated. Learn to spell.
God bless you all from Poland. You guys are talented
Thanks ! Check out our LAST show on Nov 15: lomascenter.org/event/2nd-south-carolina-string-band-concert/
May the south stand forever united in their heritage and unity, love from Mississippi
Amen brother! You ain't breakin' the law.. yet. Thanks for the song. I never heard it before.
It was played on movie the Long riders from about 1980
Yep, catchy song.
I’m really sad this group disbanded. I love everything about these videos, from the music to the costumes and ambience. The American south has such beautiful and fascinating culture, it’s a real shame how people demonize it and portray southerners as stupid and uneducated. And I’m saying all this as a young non-American coloured person.
We're sad too ! Thanks so much for your kind and insightful comment.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand you guys split up? what happened?
Got old, man. We were all in our 70's.
It happens...@@ChristianNationalist654
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Oh well i wish you all good health and God bless
Listening to this from Pennsylvania.
My mother is in the daughters of the american revolution, I also have ancestors that fought for the north.
I think the south should have been allowed to leave the union without violence and formed their own nation if that's what they wanted.
Awesome.I'm so happy to hear that you believe what I believe.Of course my family fought for the confederacy though!
I agree with you one hundred percent, There is,
Absolutely no reason for all the death and destruction that occurred....... And also I might add the war Crimes that were perpetrated against the southern civilian population by General Sherman's army that destroyed everything in their path.
And had the Blessing of the perpetrator lincoln And that drunken bastard general grant.
You men are simply amazing !! Love all of your music!
Like I tell everyone ,my family fought for the right side in The Revolution but the wrong side in the Civil War. They say " oh your family fought for the south"??? I say "NO-THEY FOUGHT FOR THE NORTH "!!!! It was not fought over slavery - it was fought over State's Rights and sure looks like we need State's Rights now !
What rights did the Northern states have that the Southern states didn't?
If you look at the Declaration of Causes from the seceding states you’ll see the war was in fact over slavery. The language in the Texas Declaration is particularly eye opening.
I just finished watching the livestream of your Nov 15th 2024 concert.
As always it did my heart good to see and hear you, and I will truly, deeply, miss you. I pray that the coming years are kind to you and all you hold dear.
Really, I just wanted to say Thank You. The music, the inspiration, and the history that you have enriched us with will live in my heart forever. My family and I just ordered all your CDs. We'll treasure them and teach our children to treasure them too.
These songs will live forever, and so will the South! You have been part of ensuring it. Thank you, a million times, thank you. 💝
Deo Vindice
Big european western fan, thanks for put these song into the history
"Я не был реконструирован, мне плевать на ваши свободы и Декларацию" - самые главные и запоминающиеся строчки в этой прекрасной песне. Слава Югу.
I have not been reconstructed, I don't care about your freedoms and Declaration" - the most important and memorable lines in this beautiful song. Glory to the South.
I think I'm a good Ole Rebel, born and raised in NYC and the Hudson Valley which are home to the great Civil War battle, The NYC Draft Riots of July 1863 which left 10,000+dead NY'ers!
NY'ers ! I know !! Right !?
Great Song!Greatings from Germany.
God Bless Y'all from the heart of Dixie.
At school they never taught us about the Civil War, even though I picked history, thanks for teaching me.
Same here
Not surprised. It's complicated. Glad you've chosen to learn more about it. Read, read, read. Then make up your own mind about it all.
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Yes, that's what I did, in the lockdown I watched North and South, but at school we were going to learn about the Civil War but they said it's too complicated even when my dad was at school they said it's too complicated and political, I don't know if the American Civil War is as relevant in school in Britain, though. I really wanna visit the American South one day or visit the old battlegrounds. Never stop uploading these, God bless you!
@@2ndSouthCarolinaStringBand Thats exactly what im doing
"I give no offense, you choose to take offense. What's worse, you choose to take offense for others that's madness!"
John Cleese (Monty Python)
Regards,
Andy, Annmarie's husband
I thought this was a poem. I was a permanent substitute in a high school and I used to go around and read this poem and a few others in a book of Confederate poetry to the kids in different classes. That was the 1980's. They probably wouldn't let me do the same thing now.
its a poem made into a song i think
No 'probably' about it.
As a Northerner I’ve always had southern pride in me I love the south and would like to move there
Copperhead! 😂. You're welcome to come on down home, brother.
Please come! Tell those of you that hate us but move here after crappin up their own states to leave though! 😂
@@5050TM fr especially the New Yorkers in Florida
Wow I never knew you guys played this live.
Thank you for upload. Great performance.
I'll always be a good old rebel. This song is now life's song.
Thanks for this amazing version.
Ur a Good Ol Racist!
@@brucebostick2521Your ignorance is appalling. You are the racist, no doubt about that!
@@brucebostick2521the North had slaves at least 7 years after the Confederacy was no more not only that but they committed rape not only that but they raped women children burned everything in the weather had something to do with slaves or not and they committed genocide and technically we're still having genocide committed on us because we're our history is being erased meaning we're still being genocided in modern era meaning of the Yankees are still pieces of s*** worse than the Nazis
Feel free to leave.
A bunch of racists hillbillies!!! Yeeha!
God bless the south.
It still blows my mind to think that soviet georgia secede from the USSR safer than the American one.
From Italy: ABSOLUTE LOVE! ❤
A great song and a wonderful performance. Greetings from Russia.
Greetings from China! I ain’t commie and hope ya southern guys don’t hate me by my skin. Just tell ya I love this song and this band.
Any Chinese person who isn't a commie is a brother to me
I hope your people all find true freedom.
We don't hate anyone, just those that force us to do things we don't want to do, then we fight.
Is this onehunglow.🤭
God Bless the South and God Bless DIXIE!!
I AM FROM NEW YORK CITY AND I AM ASAHMED OF THE LIBERAL FITH THAT IS ALL AROUND ME I ADORE YOU GUYS YOU ARE NOTHING SHORT OF BRILLIANT SIMPLY BRILLIANT YOU ARE A TRUE CREDIT TO AMERICA
YIKES ! Thanks !!!
#FreeDixie
You know Confederate hurry she belongs to the Democrats, right?
Thank you, 2nd South Carolina String Band, for your melodic tracks and for upholding the legacy of freedom with your music.
Ive never heard this song before but with the world we are living in it fills me with fire and speaks to me in such a way. I'm not a southerner (Illinois) but I dont feel like a Yankee either.
Beautiful performance fellas!
I'm a good ol rebel ya that's just what I am
I ain't got time to bullshit with no damn Uncle Sam.
Nice, I am am a good old rebel too...love you guys...thanks...
I Am very proud of my southern heritage I have I fly periodically out in my front yard. The confederate states of America not the battle flag, but I’m very proud of my heritage.
Im a Good ol Rebel. Pinckney decedent and Confederate Proud.
Just popping in from new zealand👍Good singing boys😄