I'm A Good Old Rebel chords by Ry Cooder

Chords with lyrics

"I'm a Good Old Rebel"

(Traditional, arranged by Ry Cooder)
From Soundtrack of "The Long Riders"

Verse 1:

  G+G   E minorEm     D MajorD
Oh, I'm a good old Re-bel
   E minorEm     A minorAm   E minorEm
Now, that's just what I am
  G+G   E minorEm     Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
For this fair land of free- dom
 E minorEm
I do not care a damn.
  G+G        E minorEm
I'm glad I fought a-gainst it
 E minorEm
I only wish we'd won.
  G+G    E minorEm   D MajorD
And I don't want no par-don
  E minorEm  A minorAm     E minorEm
For a-ny-thing I've done.

Verse 2:

 G+G     E minorEm     D MajorD
I hates the Yankee na- tion
  E minorEm   A minorAm     E minorEm
And eve-ry-thing they do,
 G+G     E minorEm   Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
I hates the Decla- ra-  tion
  E minorEm
Of Inde- pen- dence, too;
 G+G         E minorEm
I hates the glorious Union-
   E minorEm
'Tis dripping with our blood-
   G+G      E minorEm    D MajorD
And I hates their strip- ed banner,
 E minorEm    A minorAm  E minorEm
I fought it all I could.


Verse 3:

   G+G    E minorEm       D MajorD
Three hundred thousand Yank- ees
   E minorEm  A minorAm    E minorEm
Stiff-en in South-ern dust
  G+G     E minorEm   Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
We got three hundred thou- sand
  E minorEm
Be-fore they conquered us
   G+G        E minorEm
They died of Southern fe- ver
  E minorEm
And Southern steel and shot
   G+G    E minorEm    D MajorD
And I wish it was three mil-lion
  E minorEm    A minorAm   E minorEm
In-stead of what we got.


Verse 4:

 G+G    E minorEm     D MajorD
I won't be reconstruct-ed
  E minorEm   A minorAm    E minorEm
I'm better now than then
  G+G    E minorEm   Dsus4Dsus4 D MajorD
And for that carpet- bag- ger
 E minorEm
I do not give a damn
  G+G        E minorEm
So I'm off for the fron-tier
   E minorEm
Soon as I can go
   G+G     E minorEm  D MajorD
I'll pre- pare a wea-pon
  E minorEm    A minorAm  E minorEm