"Dixie", also known as "I Wish I Was in Dixie", "Dixie's Land", and other titles, is a popular American song. Composed for an 1859 stage play, it is one of the most distinctively American musical products of the 19th century, and probably the best-known song to have come out of blackface minstrelsy. Although not a folk song at its creation, "Dixie" has since entered the American folk vernacular. The song likely cemented the word "Dixie" in the American vocabulary as a synonym for the Southern United States, which was the Confederate States during the American Civil War. "Dixie" was an unofficial Confederate national anthem, along with "The Bonnie Blue Flag" and "God Save the South." However, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of it and had a band play it when he toured the defeated Co