Johnny Cash - God Bless Robert E. Lee lyrics

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 Dod 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