The gray generals topple
while the confederate dead clap their bones.
Send them to the red clay smithies,
beat them into pruning hooks
or cart them to a monument mortuary,
but spare the blameless horses.
Dixie down
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Dixie down
The gray generals topple
while the confederate dead clap their bones.
Send them to the red clay smithies,
beat them into pruning hooks
or cart them to a monument mortuary,
but spare the blameless horses.
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