Oh I'm a Good Ol' Rebel - Confederate Song

After the Confederacy's loss to the U.S. in the American Civil War, "I'm a Good Ol' Rebel" was created as a poem by former Confederate major James Innes Randolph in the 1860s. Its music was based upon the Minstrel song "Joe Bowers". It is not known who initially created the music, with a claim in 1864 attributing it to "J.R.T." and an 1866 sheet music copy ironically dedicating it to Thad Stevens.

"I'm a Good Ol' Rebel" was first published as a poem locally in Maryland in 1898 but was published as a song nationwide in the April 4, 1914 edition of Collier's Weekly. The song is anti-American in tone, expressing hatred towards the U.S. and its national symbols such as the U.S. Constitution and U.S. Declaration of Independence. It reflected a view held by some ex-Confederates who were reluctant to accept Reconstruction with the United States and an expression of the bitterness and anger they felt after the Confederacy had lost the American Civil War to the U.S. However, it is speculated that the song did not reflect Randolph's personal views and was intended "... to illustrate the irreconcilable spirit of the illiterate in some sections", as it had been sung and passed through oral tradition throughout Southern bars.

The published version initially contained only four verses, but individual performers have added their own verses to reflect their own opinions on the United States.
In 1991, a version was released on the Songs of the Civil War album performed by Hoyt Axton

Lyrics
Oh, I'm a good old rebel
Now thats 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 the 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....

[PunishedMetaxist]

One Hour of 3P Music - Americas is still in the works, I just want to finish all my planned Greek songs before I begin, but I will start compiling songs as soon as this video is uploaded, I managed to find songs for nearly all European countries, hopefully I can find enough for an hour from the Americas, and then we have Asia, which will be easy, Africa and Australia will be extremely hard

[Kret-o]

“I wish they were 3 Million instead of what we got”
God damn-

[YungBlasphemer]

“I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn” is such a banger line.

[alexevtyushkin]

Glory to Texas & the New Confederation!

[davidosisek]

I'm a good ole rebel and will be till the day I die.

[jrwood]

American by birth!
SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD!

[davidjefferson]

Now this is a good version of the classic confederate tune about the reconstruction, nice!

[billsanders]

Bottom line, the Southern soldier was not fighting to preserve slavery or stats' fights, and the Union soldier was not fighting to free slaves or preserve the Union. They were both fighting for only one thing, the person standing beside them.

[Sokko]

I'm pretty sure it's 'starved at point lookout' not 'started'.

[jasonbarnes]

This should be the new pledge in every school in the south.

[BillSch]

"Saving a nation is never a crime."
-Napoleon Bonaparte

[mikencctx]

I think this song should be taught to every Southern child in the first grade. They also need to learn what the civil war was fought over and how it had little to do with slavery.

[randysteele]

It always makes me laugh when Yankees think they are so much better than we are but when the shit hits the fan it's the SOUTHERN BOYS THEY CALL ON too pull their assets lol out of the fire

[Werewolf_Division]

Ill always be a confederate till the day i die.

[Mshi-]

The Confederacy died defending the true values of the American Revolution, America lost it's rich Anglo Saxon Heritage with the Confederacy.

[bigboy]

Dear god may you welcome all my Confederate brothers

[shanebaker]

I just moved from TN to a place where snowterrorists I mean snowbirds take over for six months and I've had nothing but trouble. I now understand completely that they are the American Jihads.

[rayrichards]

You're a strange lot, you americans. The Northerners are more than happy to have a dig at the Southern People for wanting to break away from the union but at the same time are happy to overlook the 13 colonies wanting to and breaking away from Britain which Southerners also ( i presume ) celebrate 😁

[alabamadirtdigger]

Descendent of Esom Tarrance Brasher ..10th Alabama Infantry Company E..TALLADEGA BLUE BOYS..Give 'em Hell Boys..Give 'em Hell..

[jared]

Why does he hate the declaration of independence?