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E|022100|
D|x00232|

This is an old American Civil War folk song, if written by a confederate soldier.

AOh, (x02220@1)I'm a good ol' rebel
    E (022100@1)               ANow (x02220@1)that's just what I am

AAnd (x02220@1)for this Yankee nation
  E (022100@1)       EI (022100@1)do not give a damn.
    DI'm (xx0232@1)glad I fought again'er
  AI (x02220@1)only wish we'd won
  AI (x02220@1)ain't asked any pardon
    E (022100@1)           AFor (x02220@1)anything I've done.

AI (x02220@1)hates the Yankee nation
    E (022100@1)            AAnd (x02220@1)everything they do
  AI (x02220@1)hates the declaration
   E (022100@1)         EOf (022100@1)independence too.
  DI (xx0232@1)hates the glorious union
     A'Tis (x02220@1)dripping with our blood
  AI (x02220@1)hates the striped banner
    E (022100@1)                   AAnd (x02220@1)fought it all I could.

AI (x02220@1)rode with Robert E. Lee
    E (022100@1)               AFor (x02220@1)three years there about
    AGot (x02220@1)wounded in four places
      E (022100@1)             EAnd (022100@1)I starved at Point Lookout.
  DI (xx0232@1)caughtch'd the rheumatism
  AA (x02220@1)campin' in the snow
    ABut (x02220@1)I killed a chance of Yankees
    E (022100@1)                   AAnd (x02220@1)I'd like to kill some more.

AThree (x02220@1)hundred thousand Yankees
   E (022100@1)              AIs (x02220@1)stiff in southern dust
   AWe (x02220@1)got three hundred thousand
  E (022100@1)                 EBefore (022100@1)they conquered us.
     DThey (xx0232@1)died of southern fever
    AAnd (x02220@1)southern steel and shot
  AI (x02220@1)wish they was three million
  E (022100@1)              AInstead (x02220@1)of what we got.

AI (x02220@1)can't take up my musket
    E (022100@1)              AAnd (x02220@1)fight 'em now no more
    ABut (x02220@1)I ain't gonna love 'em
    E (022100@1)             ENow (022100@1)that is certain sure
    DAnd (xx0232@1)I don't want no pardon
    AFor (x02220@1)what I was and am
  AI (x02220@1)won't be reconstructed
      E (022100@1)           AAnd (x02220@1)I do not give a damn.

AOh, (x02220@1)I'm a good ol' rebel
    E (022100@1)               ANow (x02220@1)that's just what I am
    AAnd (x02220@1)for this Yankee nation
  E (022100@1)       EI (022100@1)do not give a damn.
    DI'm (xx0232@1)glad I fought again'er
  AI (x02220@1)only wish we'd won
  AI (x02220@1)ain't asked any pardon
    E (022100@1)           AFor (x02220@1)anything I've done.

AI (x02220@1)ain't asked any pardon
    E (022100@1)           AFor (x02220@1)anything I've done...


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