《God Bless Robert E. Lee》歌词

[00:00:00] God Bless Robert E Lee - Johnny Cash

[00:00:08] When Robert E Lee surrended the Confederacy

[00:00:11] Jefferson Davis was upset about it

[00:00:14] He said how dare that man resent an order

[00:00:17] Form the president of the Confederate States of America

[00:00:21] Then somebody told him

[00:00:22] That General Lee had made the decision himself

[00:00:25] In order to save lives because

[00:00:27] He felt that the battle comin' up

[00:00:29] Would cost about 20 000 lives on both sides

[00:00:34] And he said 240 000 dead already is enough

[00:00:40] So this song is not about the North or the South

[00:00:43] But about the bloody brother war

[00:00:46] Brother against brother father against son

[00:00:49] The war that nobody won

[00:00:52] And for all those lives that were saved

[00:00:55] I gotta say God bless Robert E Lee

[00:01:01] Well the mansion

[00:01:03] Where the General used to live is burning down

[00:01:12] Cottonfields are blue with Sherman's troups

[00:01:21] I overheard a yankee say yesterday Nashville fell

[00:01:30] So I'm on my way to join the fight

[00:01:36] General Lee might need my help

[00:01:43] But look away look away Dixie

[00:01:49] I don't want them to see

[00:01:53] What they're doing to my Dixi

[00:01:58] God bless Robert E Lee

[00:02:06] Sherman's troups burned

[00:02:08] Atlanta and the flames lit up the sky

[00:02:16] And those of us who survived it

[00:02:21] Are watchin' my Dixie die

[00:02:28] But today at Appamattox General Lee sat down

[00:02:38] And surrended to the yankees and Ulysees S Grant

[00:02:47] So look away look away Dixie

[00:02:53] I don't want to see what do went to my Dixie

[00:03:03] God bless Robert E Lee

[00:03:09] I won't ever stop loving you my Dixie

[00:03:14] Till they put me in the ground

[00:03:19] And the last words they probably hear from me are

[00:03:25] God bless Robert E Lee