Ravenwood - 10/17/05 07:15 AM
The C.D. Hylton High School marching band has yanked Charlie Daniel's 'Devil Went Down to Georgia' from their lineup lest it be considered an unConstitutional establishment of a national religion.
This year, the marching band is performing a Georgia-themed halftime show, to celebrate their upcoming trip to perform at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta in December, band director Dennis Brown said.Until recently, the Charlie Daniels Band song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" was in the marching band's line up of Georgia-themed music.
The lyrics of the song describe the devil's attempt to steal the soul of a fiddle player in Georgia by challenging him to a fiddling duel.
On Oct. 2, The Potomac News & Manassas Journal Messenger published a letter to the editor arguing that while no one objected to that song about the devil, there would be objections if the band were to play a song about God or other spiritual beings.
After that letter ran in the paper, Brown dropped the song from the marching band's program.
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It's over. We lost.
Posted by: JP at October 17, 2005 9:36 AMGood thing they aren't trying to play "God Bless America"...
Posted by: Robert Garrard at October 17, 2005 10:39 AMIt's a stupid song, vastly overrated, perfect for a marching band.
The guy was clear in complaining about the double standard, and not about the song itself.
It was the school that overreacted, not him.
I almost lost it over the "lyrics description." That's hillarious.
Posted by: Phelps at October 18, 2005 5:47 PMThe fiddle player is a guy named JOHNNY and he beat the devil who gave him his golden fiddle i like CHARLE DANNEALS BAND they have good music and i,ll bet there will be liberals who will want it replaced with such dumb music as DOG AND BUTTERFLY or AGE OF AQUARIUS THERE HE GOSE HE CATHYS CLOWN
Posted by: screaming eagle at October 18, 2005 10:08 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
