I always liked the way the Florida state song's title became retroactively more appropriate: "Old Folks at Home".
(Though it's probably better known as "Swanee River", and is another one firmly in the minstrel song tradition, with the dialect and unfortunate word choices getting somewhat smoothed out over the last couple of decades.)
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Date: 2012-10-09 10:17 pm (UTC)(Though it's probably better known as "Swanee River", and is another one firmly in the minstrel song tradition, with the dialect and unfortunate word choices getting somewhat smoothed out over the last couple of decades.)