Lyrics Ry Cooder – I’m A Good Old Rebel

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 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
And I hates their striped banner
I fought it all I could

Three hundred thousand Yankees
Stiffen in Southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of Southern fever
And Southern steel and shot
And I wish it was three million
Instead of what we got

I won’t be reconstructed
I’m better now than then
And for that carpetbagger
I do not give a damn
So I’m off for the frontier
Soon as I can go