I'm a Good Old Rebel Lyrics

The song I'm a Good Old Rebel is performed by Ry Cooder in the album named The Long Riders in the year 1997 .



(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



Ry Cooder - The Long Riders

Apr 1997

  1. Long Riders
  2. I'm a Good Old Rebel
  3. Seneca Square Dance
  4. I Always Knew That You Were the One
  5. Wildwood Boys
  6. Better Things to Think About
  7. Cole Younger Polka
  8. Escape from Northfield
  9. Leaving Missouri
  10. Archies Funeral (Hold To Gods Unchanging Hand)
  11. Rally Round The Flag
  12. Jesse James
  13. Jesse James

I'm a Good Old Rebel