Sittin Up Drinkin With Robert E Lee

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Takin' a trip in my old Chevy, ridin' through the south
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I looked up on a hill and I saw a big white house
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I caught a glimpse of a bearded man polishing his sword
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Well, I saw Robert E. Lee outside sittin' on the porch

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I pulled up in the yard and saw a cotton field out back
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He invited me to sit with him and share a fifth of Jack
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He had criss-cross bars and thirteen stars blowing in the wind
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He said, "Save your Confederate money, boy 'cause the south will rise again."


[Chorus]
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And Robert E. Lee did not like them northerners one bit
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He was a rebel and he knew it and he didn't give a shit
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We've been talkin' about Dixie and how old times used to be
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And I've been sittin' up drinkin' with Robert E. Lee


[Verse 2]
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We talked about his troops in the rebel infantry
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And those thirteen southern states that live in infamy
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As he took another swig of his black label whiskey
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He said, "That yankee pride don't mean a damn thing to me."

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He spoke about his men and how they always fought so brave
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And how they wove their sacred flag though many lives they gave
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He struggled to gain independence for his southern ground
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He stood up for his cause and never once did he back down


[Chorus]
    D                               A
And Robert E. Lee did not like them northerners one bit
         D                           A             E
He was a rebel and he knew it and he didn't give a shit
           D                           A                 F#m
We've been talkin' about Dixie and how old times used to be
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And I've been sittin' up drinkin' with Robert E. Lee


[Verse 3]
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It was two o'clock A.M. and the fire was gettin' low
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So I thanked him for our talk 'cause it was time for me to go
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While walkin' to my car, I turned to thank him once again
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But the light was bare, there was nothing there but rock and dirt and sand


[Bridge]
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Was it my imagination playing with my head?
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I remember hearing clearly every single word he said
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Every movement, every gesture, every tear that his heart shed
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His dream is still alive even though his body's dead


[Verse 4]
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Robert E. Lee's memory lives on in the southern soul
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Along with his boys who fought and died out in the cold
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Lee was a man with tons of courage and a hero without a doubt
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He was a man with determination, he was a man from the south


[Chorus]
    D                               A
And Robert E. Lee did not like them northerners one bit
         D                           A             E
He was a rebel and he knew it and he didn't give a shit
           D                           A                 F#m
We've been talkin' about Dixie and how old times used to be
              D          A             E         A
And I've been sittin' up drinkin' with Robert E. Lee

           D                           A                 F#m
We've been talkin' about Dixie and how old times used to be
              D          A             E         A
And I've been sittin' up drinkin' with Robert E. Lee