Ronnie Rogers wrote Dixieland Delight more than 40 years ago. By Saturday, he made his first trip to Bryant-Denny Stadium to hear it played for 100,000 and AL.com was there to experience that moment with him.
Standing by the hedges among the fans in front of Section F, Ronnie Rogers could be easily missed in the Bryant-Denny Stadium crowd.More than 40 years earlier, a drive through rural Tennessee changed his life. He drove his truck down the backwoods of a Tennessee byway that, a few decades later, led him to Tuscaloosa on a sunny homecoming Saturday.
So, Lamb wrangled two tickets for last Saturday’s game where they experienced their thread of college football pageantry on the eve of its center-stage moment.The scene was Neyland Stadium. The turf was flooded by fans and cigar smoke rose as those first acoustic guitar chords echoed through the madness. Tennessee had just slayed their arch-nemesis in the most thrilling way possible --
Apparently displeased by the echoing f-bomb, Alabama nixed the song from the playlist until a 2018 compromise was reached. A public plea to students from Terry Saban, wife of Nick, was blasted on social media in an attempt to swap the naughty word for “BEAT” to accompany the Auburn reference. The school went so far as to pump a backing track of “BEAT AUBURN” to drown out those who opted for the old way.
And that’s what drew Rogers from his home in Tennessee to see what all the fuss was about last weekend.The funny thing about this moment of high-energy, full-stadium celebration is the stark contrast to the scene the song describes. “So, well, I went out in the woods and I didn’t know where I was going,” Rogers said. “So I look around and there was a white-tail buck deer, a red-tail hawk sitting on a limb and a chubby old groundhog was all around me.”“So I said ‘God, thank you,’” Rogers remembers. “I wrote it all down and they liked it.”
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