Someone Play Dixie For Me Lyrics - Dry Branch Fire Squad

I met a man in Richmond 

Laid out on the street 

White lightning in a bottle 

Discarded at his feet 

This dirty broken derelect 

Could barely speak my name 

He raised his head and looked my way 

The words they slowly came 

Play Dixie for me, Billy 

I'll hold my head up proud 

Sing about them fields of cotton 

Sing it for me loud 

Sing about the Bullruns 

Sing about the day 

I shot my brother dressed in blue 

While I was dressed in grey 

We marched out from Manassas 

Cannons on our tail 

Set fire to the cornfields 

Tore up all the rails 

Met up at the Bullrun 

Neither broke away 

The ballad of the bullrun 

Told in blue and grey 

They marched us down to Vicksburg 

By then we didn't care 

It didn't matter where we went 

Our death was in the air 

I had a couple brothers 

And each of them would say 

As one would shoot the other 

A prayer for blue and grey 

And then one day at Appomattox 

Madness came to cease 

As blue and grey had stopped the killing 

Settled for a peace 

I settled on a couple brothers' 

Souls for whom to pray 

I settled on a ballad 

Told in blue and grey 

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