Johnny Cash God Bless Robert Elee Lyrics

God Bless Robert Elee Lyrics

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 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 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