Major Innes Randolph, C.S.A.

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Oh, I’m a good ol’ Rebel, now that’s just what I am;

For this “Fair Land of Freedom” I do not give a damn!

I’m glad I fit against it, I only wish we’d won,

And I don’t want no pardon for anythin’ I done.

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I hates the Constitution, this “Great Republic” too!

I hates the Freedman’s Bureau in uniforms of blue!

I hates the nasty eagle with all its brags and fuss,

The lying, thieving yankees, I hates ‘em wuss and wuss!

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I hates the yankee nation and everthin’ they do,

I hates the Declaration of Independence too!

I hates the “Glorious Union” – ‘tis drippin’ with our blood,

And I hates the striped banner, I fit it all I could.

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I followed ol’ Marse Robert for four year near about,

Got wounded in three places, and starved at Point Lookout.

I cotched the roomatism a campin’ in the snow,

But I killed a chance o yankees, I’d like to kill some mo’!

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Three hundred thousand yankees is stiff in Southern dust.

We got three hundred thousand before they conquered us.

They died of Southern fever and Southern steel and shot,

But I wish we got three million instead of what we got!

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I can’t take up my musket and fight ‘em now no more,

But I ain’t a ‘gonna love ‘em, now that’s for certain 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!