Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song God Bless Robert E. Lee, artist - Johnny Cash. Date of issue: 31.08.1983
Song language: English
God Bless Robert E. Lee |
| 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 |