I`M A GOOD OLD REBEL — текст песни (Ry Cooder)

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)

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 fought against it
I only wish we`d won.
And I don`t want no pardon
For anything I`ve done.

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
I`ll prepare a weapon
and start for Mexico