The playing of the song "Dixieland Delight" over the public address system at University of Alabama football games and other athletic events is "under review" according to a statement released Wednesday by UA Director of Athletics Bill Battle.

The song by the band Alabama is popular with the UA student section, which interjects loud chants between lyrics, including profanities. In last Saturday's game against Auburn, students chanted "F--- Auburn" three times during the song.

"We regularly review all songs played at our athletic events," Battle said in his statement. "As part of that review, 'Dixieland Delight' will be discussed.

"It is always our goal to represent the university with class in every endeavor, and the behavior of our fans is an important element in that effort."

Students normally add their own chants to answer the song's refrain when it plays, usually during a break in home games during the second half.

This is the refrain, along with the normal chants in parenthesis:

When the song was played during last Saturday's game, the references to Tennessee and LSU were replaced by the same jeer directed at Auburn earlier in the song.

Earlier this season, Joe Alleva, LSU's athletics director, issued a public apology after some LSU students chanted "F--- you Saban" at Alabama head coach Nick Saban - who was LSU's head coach from 2000-04 - during Alabama's game in Baton Rouge, La. Alleva also took a harder stand toward the behavior in his statement.

"Unfortunately, a small minority of people chose to diminish the image of our great university by engaging in a profane chant directed toward coach (Nick) Saban," Alleva said in his statement. "We are deeply sorry that such crude behavior occurred in Tiger Stadium, because that is the antithesis of what we represent at LSU.

"If it occurs in the future, we will make every effort to identify those who choose to act in this manner and make sure they know they are no longer welcome in our stadium. Our hope, however, is that this will never happen again."