Read the lyrics and try to understand the meaning of the song.
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
Now that's just what I am
And for this yankee nation
I do no give a damn
I'm glad I fought against her
I only wish we'd won
I ain't asked any pardon
For anything I've done
I hates the Yankee nation
And eveything they do
I hates the declaration
Of independence too
I hates the glorious union
'Tis dripping with our blood
I hates their striped banner
And fought it all I could
I rode with Robert E. Lee
For three years there about
Got wounded in four places
And I starved at Point Lookout
I caught the rheumatism
Campin' in the snow
But I killed a chance of Yankees
And I'd like to kill some more
Three hundred thousand Yankees
Is stiff in southern dust
We got three hundred thousand
Before they conquered us
They died of southern fever
And southern steel and shot
I wish they was three million
Instead of what we got
I can't take up my musket
And fight 'em down no more
But I ain't a-goin' to love them
Now that is certain sure
And I don't want no pardon
For what I was and am
I won't be reconstructed
And I do not give a damn
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
Now that's just what I am
And for this Yankee nation
I do no give a damn
I'm glad I fought against her
I only wish we'd won
I ain't asked any pardon
For anything I've done
I ain't asked any pardon
For anything I've done...
Which side of the civil war did he fight for?
Was he happy with the result of the civil war?
As we saw in Unit 5, "Manifest destiny" was a popular belief in the 19th-century that American settlers should take control of the western part of the continent. The strength of modern, industrializing American culture contrasted against the native cultures in the west. During this time, the country took new territories all the way to the Pacific, “from sea to shining sea.”
The 1872 painting "American Progress" by John Gast is considered a clear representation of this idea. Have a look at the painting. What is happening?