Autographed Copy Of "Dixie," Nation's Most Famous Martial Song -- As explained in the hand writing of Daniel Decatur Emmett shown hereon, this is a copy of the "Dixie" manuscript, autographed by the author for Dewitt Miller in 1900, forty-one years after the song was written as a walk-around for the Virginia Minstrels, the original blackface troupe. The role of Emmett is portrayed by Bing Crosby in Paramount's Technicolor musical, "Dixie," and the song was recorded for the picture from a similar manuscript copy. November 3, 1947. (Photo by "Dixie").