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[Intro]
[Verse 1]
Oh, I'm a good old rebel,
Now that's just what I am,
For this fair land of freedom
I do not care a damn.
I'm glad I fit aginst it
I only wish we won.
And I don't want no pardon
For anything I done
[Interlude]
[Verse 2]
I hates the constitution,
This great republic too
I hates the freedman's bureau
In uniforms blue
I hates the nasty eagle
with all his brags and fuss
The lying, thieving Yankees
I hates 'em wuss and wuss
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
I hates the Yankee nation
and everything they do
I hates the declaration
of independence too
I hates the "Glorious Union"
'tis dripping with our blood
I hates their striped banner
I fit it all I could
[Instrumental]
[Verse 4]
I followed old Marse Robert
for 4 years, near about
Got wounded in 3 places
and starved at Point Lookout
I caughts the rheumatism
while camping in the snow
But I killed a chance o' Yankees
and I'd like to kill some more
[Interlude]
[Verse 5]
Three hundred thousand Yankees
stiff in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
and Southern steel and shot
I wish there was 3 million
instead of what we got
[Interlude]
[Verse 6]
I can't take up my musket
and fight 'em now no more
But I ain't gonna love 'em
now that's sartain sure
And I don't want no pardon
for what I was and am
I won't be reconstructed
and I don't care a damn
[Interlude]
[Outro]
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
now that's just what I am...
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
now that's just what I am!