Would cost about twenty thousand lives on both sides
And he said two hundred forty thousand dead already is enough
And for all those lives that were saved
Then somebody told him that
But today at Appomattox General Lee sat down

So I'm on my way to join the fight General Lee might need my help
I overheard a Yankee say yesterday Nashville fell
Well, the mansion where the General used to live is burning down
He said, "How dare that man resent an order
I won't ever stop loving you, my Dixie, till they put me in the ground
And the last words they probably
And those of us who survived it are watchin' my Dixie die

Brother against brother, father against son, the war that nobody won
Sherman's troops burned Atlanta and the flames lit up the sky
But about the bloody brother war
What they're doing to my Dixie, God bless Robert E. Lee

Hear from me are God bless Robert E. Lee
But look away, look away, Dixie, I don't want them to see

Cotton fields are blue with Sherman's troops
So look away, look away Dixie
So this song is not about the north or the south
General Lee had made the decision himself
Form the President of the Confederate States of America"
And surrendered to the Yankees and Ulysses S Grant

I gotta say God bless Robert E. Lee
In order to save lives because he felt that the battle comin' up