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Iowa Fight Song. The Iowa Fight Song is one of three fight songs currently used by the University of Iowa Hawkeye Marching Band along with On Iowa and Roll Along Iowa. The music and lyrics were written by Iowa native Meredith Willson, author of The Music Man, in 1951.
Joe Queenan on a Lynyrd Skynyrd song that told Neil Young where he could stick it. But is it a white supremacist anthem? Home, sweet home: A 17-year-old civil rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Alabama, on May 3, 1963. Sweet Home Alabama falls into that wonderful category of songs known on the continent as chansons de revanche or dissenlieder.