Major James Randolph
to the Melody, "Joe Bowers"
Em
Oh, I'm a good old Rebel
C
Em
Now that's just what I am
G
C
For this fair land of freedom
Em
I do not care a damn.
G
C
I'm glad I fit against it
Em
I only wish we'd won.
G C
And I don't want no pardon
Em
For anything I've done.
I hates the Constitution
This great Republic too
I hates the Freedmen's Buro
In uniforms of blue.
I hates the nasty eagle
With all his brag and fuss
But the lyin', thievin' Yankees
I hates' em wuss and wuss.
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Lies still in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got.
I can't take up my musket
And fight' em now no mo'
But I ain't a-goin'to love' em
Now that is sartin sho'
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am
And I won't be reconstructed
And I don't care a damn.
