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“Deacon Blues” is a song by Steely Dan from their 1977 album Aja. The song contains the lines: :They’ve got a name for the winners in the world :I want a name when I lose :They call Alabama the Crimson Tide :Call me Deacon Blues The song takes as an image the contrast between the perennial powerhouse, Crimson Tide football team, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, who had won only 7 games in the 1972-1975 period. Group member Donald Fagen said, “Walter and I had been working on that song at a house in Malibu. I played him that line, and he said, ‘You mean it’s like, they call these cracker assholes this grandiose name like the Crimson Tide, and I’m this loser, so they call me this other grandiose name, Deacon Blues?‘ And I said, ‘Yeah!‘ He said, ‘Cool! Let’s... Read on...