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Johnny Cash - God Bless Robert E Lee Lyrics

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  • When Robert E Lee surrended the Confederacy
  • Jefferson Davis was upset about it
  • He said how dare that man resent an order
  • Form the president of the Confederate States of America
  • Then somebody told him that General Lee had made the decision himself
  • In order to save lives because he felt that the battle comin' up
  • Would cost about 20 000 lives on both sides
  • And he said 240 000 dead already is enough
  • So this song is not about the North or the South but about the bloody brother war
  • Brother against brother father against son the war that nobody won
  • And for all those lives that were saved I gotta say God bless Robert E Lee
  • Well the mansion where the General used to live is burning down
  • Cottonfields are blue with Sherman's troups
  • I overheard a yankee say yesterday Nashville fell
  • So I'm on my way to join the fight General Lee might need my help
  • But look away look away Dixie I don't want them to see
  • What they're doing to my Dixie God bless Robert E Lee
  • Sherman's troups burned Atlanta and the flames lit up the sky
  • And those of us who survived it are watchin' my Dixie die
  • But today at Appamattox General Lee sat down
  • And surrended to the yankees and Ulysees S Grant
  • So look away look away Dixie...
  • I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie till they put me in the ground
  • And the last words they probably hear from me are God bless Robert E Lee

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