God Bless Robert E. Lee chords by Johnny Cash
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(G major) When Robert E Lee surrendered the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis was upset about it
He said how dare that man
resent an order
(D major) Form the pres (G major) ident 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
used to live (C major) is burning (G major) down
Cotton fields are blue
with Sherman's (D major) troupes
I (G major) overheard a Yankee say
(C major) yesterday Nashville fell (G major)
So I'm on my way to join the fight
General Lee (D major) might need my help (G major)
But look away look away Dixie (C major) I
don't want them to see
What they're doing to my (G major) Dixie (D major) God
bless Robert E Lee (G major)
Sherman's troupes burned Atlanta
and the flames (C major) lit up the sky (G major)
And those of us who survived it
are watchin' my Dixie (D major) die
But today (G major) at (C major) Appamattox General
Lee sat down (G major)
And surrender to the Yankees
and (D major) Ulysees S Grant (G major)
So look away look away Dixie... (C major) (G major) (D major) (G major)
I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie
till they (C major) put me in the ground (G major)
And the last words they probably hear
from me are (D major) God bless Robert E (G major) Lee
God Bless Robert E. Lee
Johnny Cash
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