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