Southern Boys

(Paul Kennerley)
White Mansions, 1978

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Lyrics sung by Caleb (Steve Cash)
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they brought parasols and picnic boxes

dressed like they's hunting foxes

but could nor more fight than fly

they thought at Bull Run they'd put us down

but that ain't quite what they found

now here's the reason why

 

we're just Southern boys, raising hell right now

we're just Southern boys, doing well right now

 

they got many more men than us

got the arms but not the guts

they ain't the kind to win

we whipped 'em bad at Ball's Bluff

at Wilson's Creek - treated 'em rough

pretty soon they'll give in

 

we're just Southern boys, raising hell right now

we're just Southern boys, doing well right now

 

sweet spirit of Dixie - just drives us along

like the Mississippi flows - the Southland rolls on and on

(INSTRUMENTAL BREAK)

 

we got horsemen like you've never seen

gunmen that shoot so mean

farm boys with fists of steel

we've got the finest generals ever known

Jackson stands like a wall of stone

we won't beg and kneel

 

we're just Southern boys, raising hell right now

we're just Southern boys, doing well right now

 

we're just Southern boys, raising hell right now

we're just Southern boys, doing well right now

 

we're just Southern boys, raising hell right now

 

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Lyrics & Music: Paul Kennerley
Copyright 1978 Randor Music (London) Ltd.
Controlled in the U.S. & Canada by Irving Music, Inc. (BMI)

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Created 17 January 2003
Updated 17 January 2003

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