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