Story Behind The Song

The end of the war...each soldier struggling with getting home and what happens now?? reflecting on the past 4 years of death and destruction and the impending marshall law that took place leaving soldiers in the South for 12 years after the war ended....

Lyrics

when Georgia cheered Robert E. Lee
one thing they just couldnt see
was Tecumseh Sherman and his blue boys
marching to the sea

Atlanta was built in 100 years
in just 30 days they burnt the town
with a white flag flyin' overhead
that was the night they drove Dixie down

i felt the storm and saw the lightenin'
i could hear the thunder break
saw lights burn on the horizon
i thought it was just a Hurricane

there's a courthouse in Appomattax
inside is a table and chairs
on the table is a declaration
the end of 4 years of bloody warfare

gazin' across from each other
was Ullysses and Robert E. Lee
when Lee withdrew his sabre
that was the end of the Confederacy

i felt the storm and saw the lightenin'
i could hear the thunder break
saw lights burn on the horizon
i thought it was just a Hurricane

the 1st shot was at Fort Sumter
the last made a president die
600,000 lay on the battlefields
limbs piled higher than the sky

bole weavil's got the cotton
Carpetbaggers got the gold
i got a mule and 40 acres
and Freedom for my soul

i felt the storm and saw the lightenin'
i could hear the thunder break
saw lights burn on the horizon
i thought it was just a Hurricane