Key: A major
Verse 1
G
When Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was upset about it
He said how dare that man
resent an order
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G
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 twenty thousand
lives on both sides
And he said two hundred and forty
thousand 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 Dod bless Robert E Lee
Well the mansion where the General
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G
used to live is burning down
Cotton fields are blue
C
G
yesterday Nashville fell
So I'm on my way to join the fight
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G
General Lee might need my help
don't want them to see
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D
What they're doing to my Dixie God
Sherman's troupes burned Atlanta
C
G
and the flames lit up the sky
And those of us who survived it
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C
But today at Appamattox General
And surrender to the Yankees
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G
and Ulysees S Grant
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G
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G
So look away look away Dixie...
I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie
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G
till they put me in the ground
And the last words they probably hear
D
G
from me are God bless Robert E Lee
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TunerE A D G B E
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