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“I wasn’t just whistling ‘Dixie’! … Sam, were you just whistling ‘Dixie’?”
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About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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I do hate slavery, but that is one catchy tune.
Well, you could try "Union Dixie" on for size.
Away down South in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes and alligators Right away! Come away! Right away! Right away, come away!
Where cotton's king and men are chattels Union boys will win the battles Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
I wish I was in Baltimore, I'd make secession traitors roar Right away! Come away! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! We'll put the traitors all to route, I'll bet my boots we'll whip 'em out Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
Oh may our Stars and Stripes still wave forever o’er free and brave! Right away! Come away! Right away, come away! Come away! And let our motto forever be for Union and for Liberty Right away! Come away! Right away, come away!
We'll all go down to Dixie, away, away! Each Dixie boy must understand that he must mind his Uncle Sam Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie! Away! Away! We'll all go down to Dixie!
I'll also include what hilariously included in the lyrics on musicgenius:
Technically true, I guess.