Johnny Cash God Bless Robert E. Lee Lyrics

God Bless Robert E. Lee Lyrics

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 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 God bless Robert E. Lee

Well, the mansion where the General used to live is burning down

Cotton fields are blue with Sherman's troops



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 troops burned Atlanta and the flames lit up the sky

And those of us who survived it are watchin' my Dixie die

But today at Appomattox General Lee sat down

And surrendered 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