God Bless Robert E Lee

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When Robert E. Lee surrendered 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
And 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 God bless Robert 
E. Lee


[Verse 1]
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Well the mansion where the General 
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used to live is burning down
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Cotton fields are blue with 
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Sherman's troupes
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I overheard a Yankee say 
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yesterday Nashville fell
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So I'm on my way to join the fight 
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General Lee might need my help


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[Chorus]
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But look away look away Dixie
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I don't want them to see
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What they're doing to my Dixie
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God bless Robert E. Lee


[Verse 2]
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Sherman's troupes burned Atlanta 
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and the flames lit up the sky
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And those of us who survived it are
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 watchin' my Dixie die
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But today at Appamattox General 
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Lee sat down
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And surrender to the Yankees and 
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Ulysees S. Grant


[Chorus]
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But look away look away Dixie
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I don't want them to see
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What they're doing to my Dixie
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God bless Robert E. Lee


[Otro]
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I won't ever stop loving you my 
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Dixie till they put me in the ground
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And the last words they probably 
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hear from me are God bless Robert 
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E. Lee