God Bless Robert E. Lee Chords by Johnny Cash

[A] _ _ _ When Robert E.
Lee surrendered to Confederacy, Jefferson Davis was upset about it.
He said,
how dare that man rescind 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 coming 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 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 got to say, God bless
Robert E.
Lee. _ _
_ _ Well the mansion where the General used [D] to live is [A] burning down.
_ _ Cotton fields are blue
with [E] Sherman's truth. _ _ _
_ _ [G#] [A] I _ overheard a Yankee say _ [D] yesterday the National [A] Bell.
_ So I'm on
my way to join the fight.
[E] General Lee might need my [A]
help.
_ _ _ _ But look away, look away Dixie.
_ [D] I don't want them to see what they're doing to [A] my Dixie.
_ _ [E]
God bless Robert [A] E.
Lee.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ _ Sherman's
truth burned Atlanta _ [D] and the flames [A] lit up the sky.
_ _ And those of us who survived it _ are
watching my Dixie [E] die.
_ _ _ _ [A] But today _ at Appomattox _ [D] _
General Lee [A] sat down _ and surrendered _ to _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ the
Dixie.
_ _ [D]
I don't want them to see what they're doing to [A] my Dixie.
_ [E]
God bless Robert [A] E.
Lee. _ _ _
_ I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie, till [D] they put me to [A] the ground.
And the last words
they'll probably hear from me [E] are God bless Robert E.
Lee.
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