When Robert E Lee surrendered 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 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 is burning down
Cotton fields are blue
with Sherman's troupes
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 troupes 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 surrender 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