Ole Miss Band - University of Mississippi 

why did we ever let people take away out heritage

Here's some history no one is taking away: Dixie receded from the union. So a great war was fought, thousands died. Win Dixie. But Dixie didn't win, the slaves are free and now they are citizens like the rest of us. I won't take that history away. OWN IT!

Some people think if you live in Dixie you're already dead, immersed in hatred because Dixie Lost the war, the slaves were freed, the south will never rise again, its a haven for backwards Neanderthal thinking and lifestyle, conspiracy theories, clinging to misconceptions and lies, it's nowhere, actually. No place to live and die.

Proud graduate of Ole Miss 1977 class.

Im a Vol and I will never fofget the 83 game. Ole Miss killed our season

It was a night game, in Knoxville, in November. Dr. Snavely wouldn't let us cover up with blankets or coats in the stands before halftime because it was a TV game (the reason for its being at night) and "Tennessee's band doesn't do it." We like to froze, even in wool uniforms with layers underneath. I have to admit, it's an awesome sight standing on that field, looking up...and up...and up...at how high the stadium goes, and realizing there are 100,000 orange-clad fans filling the stands.

It was so cold!!!

Bet Bob... I am a Vol but I have always loved your band. Thanx for being part of that wonderful group.

​@@castlerobber1983 Billy Brewer's 1st year as head coach. Coldest game I ever played in (counting Oxford Christmas parade)! We watched Tennessee's Alumni Band perform and that was the birth of the OM Alumni Band.

You got that right!!!

Love Tony the Landshark, though!!! NON - controversial whereas Col Reb has such a negative stigma associated w him ...& besides he's bn GONE since 2003 ---19 years. And, well the Black Bear was a bad choice & doomed from the outset. Hotty Toddy Forever!!!

@MichaelGunner123 The negative stigma was created to give the Union a MORAL ADVANTAGE, and Southerners fell for it by not preserving their own history! The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it!" George Orwell "Surrender means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern school teachers their version of the War; will be impressed by all the influences of history and education to our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit subjects for derision!" General Patrick Cleburne, CSA The role of slavery became the proclaimed cause of [Lincoln's] war because it was necessary to put the South at a moral disadvantage by transforming the contest from a war for independence into a war waged for the maintenance and extension of slavery!" Woodrow Wilson, US President LINCOLN AND THE UNION INVADED DIXIE FOR REVENUE TAX MONEY TO PRESERVE THE UNION TREASURY! The Confederate States of America (1861-1865) started with an agrarian-based economy that relied heavily on slave-worked plantations for the production of cotton for export to Europe If classed as an independent country, the area of the Confederate States would have ranked as the *FOURTH-RICHEST country of the world in 1860."* (Wikipedia: Economy of the Confederate States of America). Lincoln Presidential Proclamation No. 81, April 1861 (five days after the evacuation of Ft Sumter) "Whereas an insurrection against the Government of the United States has broken out in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, and the laws of the United States *FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE (TAX MONEY)* can not be effectually executed therein conformably to that provision of the Constitution *WHICH REQUIRES DUTIES (REVENUE TAX MONEY) TO BE UNIFORM THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES;* ...." Lincoln's Presidential Proclamation NO. 82, April 27 1861 (after more States secede) "Whereas since that date, public property of the United States has been seized, *THE COLLECTION OF THE REVENUE OBSTRUCTED,* ......"

shouldn’t be proud of that but ok

Absolutely you should be proud of those bad ass rebel ancestors. DEO VINDICE

The old south was so beautiful colonial antebellum mansions epic plantations until the north did the damage they did

LM was a fabulous director and great friend to all the members of the Pride of the South. We were luck to have been under his baton for a period of time. He laid a great foundation of excellence for others to follow.

Still does have Spirit. Lots of it!

@@MichaelGunner123 Right, I agree. Just got back from Oxford. Saw the campus. Incredibly beautiful!

@John C. Haines I heard from my uncle in New Albany that it has become woke or liberal. Such students when they get into the real world will change their minds.

@John C. Haines Tons of OLE MISS SPIRIT represented @ Sugar Bowl when I was there.

Tim, I have that CD.

No more Dixie :-(

How'd being in band workout bud?

Me too, song used to bring great joy, now a tear.

I hadn't heard that he passed. He was one of my favorite professors at Ole Miss.

Do you know where sheet music for this could be found?

Lucky, I am in high school, and will never get to be a part of either, they have degraded themselves for federal funding to the point that all of their old values have disappeared.

SMEKY it's My Dear Ole Suwanee

Followed by Are You From Dixie

Thank you SO MUCH!!! ;)

Paula Jones that sombitch

Correct