I'm A Good Ole Rebel chords by Hoyt Axton

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• Difficulty: Beginner

I`m A Good `Ole Rebel
Hoyt Axton
written by Major James Innes Randolph C.S.A.
prior to his death in 1887

(Can be sung acapella)


E  A
Oh I`m a good ole` rebel
    E                  A
Now that`s just what I am

And for this yankee nation
  E
I do no give a damn
    D
I`m glad I fought again her
  A
I only wish we`d won

I ain`t asked any pardon
    E             A
For anything I`ve done

I hates the Yankee nation
    E              A
And eveything they do


I hates the declaration
   E
Of independence too
  D
I hates the glorious union
     A
`Tis dripping with our blood

I hates the striped banner
  E            A
I fit it all I could

I rode with Robert E. Lee
    E                 A
For three years there about

Got wounded in four places
      E
And I starved at Point Lookout
  D
I cotch the rheumatism
  A
A Campin` in the snow


But I killed a chance of Yankees
        E                 A
And I`d like to kill some mo`

Three hundred thousan` Yankees
   E                 A
Is stiff in southern dust

We got three hundred thousand
E
Before they conquered us
     D
They died of southern fever
    A
And southern steel and shot


I wish they were three million
E                  A
Instead of what we got

I can`t take up my musket
    E                A
And fight `em now no more

But I ain`t gonna` love `em
    E
Now that is certain sure
      D
And I don`t want no pardon
    A
For what I was and am

I won`t be reconstructed
      E             A
And I do not give a damn

Oh I`m a good ole` rebel
    E                  A
Now that`s just what I am


For this Yankee nation
  E
I do no give a damn
    D
I`m glad I fought again` her
  A
I only wish we`d won

Now I ain`t asked any pardon
    E             A
For anything I`ve done

I ain`t asked any pardon
    E             A
For anything I`ve done