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Originally Posted by The Third Man
I was asking because one struck me as being very much directed toward adults of the time and the other was sanitised for adult children in a PC world.
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Your own bias is showing. The problem with your two examples is that the "sanitized" version is much closer to the 1859 original. The military version was written later, to support the Southern cause. Has nothing to do with PC or "adult children", as you so condescendingly put it.
The first one is indeed cleaned up from the original, whose semi-lecherous second verse is included in the version I linked to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)