I'm A Good Old Rebel chords by Ry Cooder

"I'm a Good Old Rebel"

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

Verse 1:

    G     Em          D
Oh, I'm a good old Re-bel
     Em          Am     Em
Now, that's just what I am
    G     Em          Dsus4 D
For this fair land of free- dom
  Em
I do not care a  damn.
    G               Em
I'm glad I fought a-gainst it
  Em
I only wish we'd won.
    G       Em      D
And I don't want no par-don
    Em   Am         Em
For a-ny-thing I've done.

Verse 2:

  G         Em         D
I hates the Yankee na- tion
    Em     Am         Em
And eve-ry-thing they do,
  G         Em     Dsus4 D
I hates the Decla- ra-   tion
   Em
Of Inde- pen- dence, too;
  G                  Em
I hates the glorious Union-
      Em
'Tis dripping with our blood-
      G           Em        D
And I hates their strip- ed banner,
  Em        Am    Em
I fought it all I could.


Verse 3:

      G       Em             D
Three hundred thousand Yank- ees
      Em    Am        Em
Stiff-en in South-ern dust
   G         Em      Dsus4 D
We got three hundred thou- sand
   Em
Be-fore they conquered us
     G                Em
They died of Southern fe- ver
    Em
And Southern steel and shot
      G       Em        D
And I wish it was three mil-lion
   Em       Am      Em
In-stead of what we got.


Verse 4:

  G        Em          D
I won't be reconstruct-ed
    Em     Am       Em
I'm better now than then
    G        Em      Dsus4 D
And for that carpet- bag-  ger
  Em
I do not give  a  damn
   G               Em
So I'm off for the fron-tier
     Em
Soon as  I  can go
     G         Em    D
I'll pre- pare a wea-pon
    Em        Am    Em