Poor Rebel Soldier
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I’m a poor rebel soldier a long way from home Ain’t had me no loving since the day I’ve been gone Can’t find me no woman in this Yankee land There’s a place in old Dixie I know where I can
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Since I left old Georgia a long time ago We run Grant’s big army in the land where it snows The cold wind is blowing and freezing the rain But there’s hot blood still running through these rebel veins
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The call of the wild keeps howling to me From the mountains down yonder in old Tennessee Got a woman who’s waiting in old Knoxville town When night falls I’m going to be Tennessee bound
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I’m a poor rebel soldier and I’m going home Cause I don’t call it living when I’m living alone Come morning they’ll look but me they won’t find I’m going to be south of that old Dixie line