OK, I clicked. The Tennessee fan was just dropping the mic on a Bama in-bred who had posted that "The original song isn't about TN tho. It just mentions TN..."
It's so beautiful that it is still pissing them off.
The "original song"? Alabama released that as an original song in 1983. I bought the album when it was released. It has never changed. The song's first verse is as follows:
Rollin' down a Backwoods,
Tennessee byway
One arm on the wheel
Holdin' my lover with the other
A sweet, soft, southern thrill
Worked hard all week, got a little jingle
On a
Tennessee Saturday night
Couldn't feel better, I'm together
With my Dixieland delight.
...but it's a song about Bama. Moron!
"Dixieland Delight" was written by
Ronnie Rogers, who previously had hits with various artists. Rogers stated that the idea for "Dixieland Delight" came to him while driving on
U.S. Route 11W, a rural
highway within the state of
Tennessee.
[2] According to Rogers in later interviews, the song is inspired by the town of
Leiper's Fork, Tennessee, and a dead-end road that Rogers was driving through that spurred him to write the first lyrics of the song.