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| You fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb |
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| You fought all the way, Johnny Red |
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| Saw you a-marchin' with Robert E. Lee |
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| You held your head a-high, tryin' to win the victory |
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| You fough | t for your folks but you didn't die in vain |
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| Even though you lost, they speak highly of your name |
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| 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb |
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| You fought all the way, Johnny Reb |
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| I heard your teeth chatter from the cold outside |
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| Saw the bullets open up the wounds in your side |
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| I s | aw the young boys as they begin to | fall |
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| You had tears in your eyes, 'cause you couldn't help at all |
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| But you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb |
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| You fought all the way, Johnny Reb |
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| I saw, General Lee, raise the saber in his ha | nd |
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| Heard the cannon's roar as you made your last stand |
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| You marched | in the battle with the gray and the red |
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| When the cannon's smoke cleared, took days to count the dead |
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| 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb |
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| You fought all the way, Johnny Reb |
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| When, "Honest Abe", heard the news about your fall |
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| The folks thought he'd call a great victory ball |
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| But he | asked the band to play the song, Dixie |
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| For you Johnny Reb and all that you be | lieved |
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| 'Cause you fought all the way, Johnny Reb, Johnny Reb |
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| Yeah, you fought all the way, Johnny Reb |
| Repeat once and then fade out. |
| A corrected version is also available |