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

From 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 Ulysses 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

• Artist:Johnny Cash
• Album:Johnny 99