Rebel Son - Mr confederate man
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FI was just a Flittle boy in Felementary sGchool
FEnglish and Math and FScience class
FLearning the Ggolden Frule
FI learned how to add and Fhow to subtract
How to Fmultiply and Gdivide
FI learned about bugs and FI learned about plants
And I Flearned how to Gread and Fwrite
FBut my most favorite cFlass of all was my Flast class of the dGay
FWhen my history teacher would Ftell us tales of old Ftimes long Ggone Faway
FI was amazed at the way she kFnew all the people and theirF names and the
places and the dGates
Because Fwhen I first learned about FGeneral Lee and his FThirteen rGebel Fstates.
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FOne day she Fcame to school with a bFig brown Ggrocery Fbag
FShe opened it up we all Fhelped her hold her up
This gFreat big XG-shaped Fflag
She said &Fquot;Class, now onFly a fool would tell you tFhis flag is a symbolG of hate
FIt represents the men who fFought and died with Fpride for our GConfederate
Fstates
FYour assignment tonight, I wFant you to write, I Fwant you to pGretend
That one of Fthese brave men came Fback to life,
FWhat would you sGay to Fhim
Well the sFchool bell rang and I Fthought and I thought as the Fbus carried me
across Gtown
I got Fout my pencil and my Fnotebook pad and tFhis is what GI wrote dFown
FI wrote
FMr. FConfederate man,
FI'd like to Gshake your hand
For Fgiving your life for FDixieland
FMr. CGonfederate Fman,
The next day in history class, I put my paper on the teacher's desk
Then she called me up in front of everyone,
because she said she liked mine the best
As I walked up to the head of the class,
my teacher smiled and she nodded at me
Then I saw a tear roll down her cheek as I began to read
I read
Mr. Confederate man,
I'd like to shake your hand
For giving your life for Dixieland
Mr. Confederate man,
Played quiet:
I was at home reading through the news, just the other day
When I ran across my old teacher's name and I saw that she had passed away
With a bitter-sweet smile I looked up at my wall, a wrinkled paper and an
old wood frame
Where underneath penciled words almost faded away, she had marked a great
big red A
Plus
Mr. Confederate man,
I'd like to shake your hand
For giving your life for Dixieland
Mr. Confederate man,
I wrote
Mr. Confederate man,
I'd like to shake your hand
For giving your life for Dixieland
Mr. Confederate man...