[Lyric] Appomattox Jubilee (Kasko Lunsford)

I wrote to Appomattox on the morn of April ninth
My uniform was bloodied and my boots had lost their shine
When I reached the rendezvous I found a jubilee
Robert Lee was swinging like an apple from the tree

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Lee was just as dandy up there as he was in life
His silver spurs did jangle as he dangled from the sky
As the life еscaped him there arosе a joyous roar
The traitorous aristocrat would haunt the south no more

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The rebel officers stood with their noses to the wall
The boys from Shenandoah put an ending to them all
With a single length of rope the insurrection fell
May the lord condemn them all to live as slaves in Hell
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