Cordele is a city in Crisp County, Georgia, United States. The population was 11,147 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Crisp County.
Cordele calls itself the Watermelon Capital of the World.
Cordele was incorporated on January 1, 1888, and named for Cordelia Hawkins, eldest daughter of Colonel Samuel Hawkins, the president of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway.
In November 1864, the area that is now Cordele served as the temporary capital of Georgia. During the last days of the Confederacy, Georgia's war governor Joseph E. Brown used his rural farmhouse to escape the wrath of Sherman's March to the Sea. During that time the farmhouse, which Brown called "Dooly County Place," served as the official capital for only a few days. It was replaced in 1890 by the Suwanee Hotel, located in what became downtown Cordele. The hotel was destroyed by a fire in late 1994 and was rebuilt.
Cordele was founded in 1888 by J.E.D. Shipp of Americus. The town was located at the junction of two major railroads – the Savannah, Americus & Montgomery line, and the Georgia Southern & Florida. As the railroads brought more people and business to the newly settled territory, Cordele experienced phenomenal growth. Before 1905 Cordele was located in southern Dooly County, 9 miles (14 km) from the county seat in Vienna. With Cordele's continued progress, many in the community felt the need for a seat of government to be closer than Vienna. Crisp County was formed in 1905 by taking a portion of southern Dooly County, and Cordele became its county seat.
I'm out of faith, I'm in retrograde
A dizzy pattern in a cheap parade
And I'm losing touch but I'm, I'm not ashamed
Of what I say or how nice I play
I'm a Trojan horse made of paper mache
What has been ever comes 'round again
And I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
I'm out of place, I'm a different state
A little scattered by a bitter fate
And I'm losing touch but I'm, I'm not afraid
I'll be okay just in a different way
I have no remorse, I have no more shame
Oh, nothing ever ends before it begins
'Cause I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
Well, I'll be going 'round and 'round
This cycle won't slow down
I'm looking for the center of this life I've found
What has been ever comes 'round again?
'Cause I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed but I've done my best
An undecided heart makes such a mess
And I'm under a rain, I'm shutting down
I'm unimpressed, I've done my best