And those of us who survived it are watchin' my Dixie die
Would cost about twenty thousand lives on both sides
General Lee had made the decision himself
Sherman's troops burned Atlanta and the flames lit up the sky
So look away, look away Dixie
But about the bloody brother war
I overheard a Yankee say yesterday Nashville fell
And surrendered to the Yankees and Ulysses S Grant
I gotta say God bless Robert E. Lee
But look away, look away, Dixie, I don't want them to see
I won't ever stop loving you, my Dixie, till they put me in the ground
And for all those lives that were saved
And the last words they probably
So this song is not about the north or the south
Form the President of the Confederate States of America"
What they're doing to my Dixie, God bless Robert E. Lee
And he said two hundred forty thousand dead already is enough
But today at Appomattox General Lee sat down
He said, "How dare that man resent an order
Brother against brother, father against son, the war that nobody won
Well, the mansion where the General used to live is burning down
So I'm on my way to join the fight General Lee might need my help
Cotton fields are blue with Sherman's troops
Then somebody told him that
In order to save lives because he felt that the battle comin' up
