Mr Confederate Man Chords

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GI was just a Clittle boy in Gelementary sDchool

GEnglish and Math and CScience class

GLearning the Dgolden Grule

GI learned how to add and Chow to subtract

 How to Gmultiply and Ddivide

GI learned about bugs and CI learned about plants

 And I Glearned how to Dread and Gwrite

GBut my most favorite cClass of all was my Glast class of the dDay

GWhen my history teacher would Ctell us tales of old Gtimes long Dgone Gaway

GI was amazed at the way she kCnew all the people and theirG names and the

 places and the dDates

 Because Gwhen I first learned about CGeneral Lee and his GThirteen rDebel Gstates.

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GOne day she Ccame to school with a bGig brown Dgrocery Gbag

GShe opened it up we all Chelped her hold her up

 This gGreat big XD-shaped Gflag

 She said "GClass, now only a Cfool would tell you this fGlag is a symbol of hDate

GIt represents the men who fCought and died with Gpride for our DConfederate

Gstates

GYour assignment tonight, I wCant you to write, I Gwant you to pDretend

 That one of Gthese brave men came Cback to life,

GWhat would you sDay to Ghim

 Well the sGchool bell rang and I Cthought and I thought as the Gbus carried me

 across Dtown

 I got Gout my pencil and my Cnotebook pad and tGhis is what DI wrote dGown

GI wrote

GMr. CConfederate man,

GI'd like to Dshake your hand

 For Ggiving your life for CDixieland

GMr. CDonfederate Gman,

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...