Johnny Cash - 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
From 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 coming 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

Well, the mansion where the General used
To live is burning down
Cottonfields 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 watching 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 don't want them to see
What they're doing to my Dixie
God bless Robert E lee

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