The Day They Took Robert E. Lee Down
A moment of silence for General Robert E. Lee
Who stood through time like a live oak tree
I had tears in my eyes in a front row seat
But when he was taken down in front of all to see
The pain was so bad, I had to get up and leave
After 24 Abita Bourbon Street Barrel Aged Imperial Stouts, I had to pee.
Robert e Lee was a treasonous ole soul
To defeat the republic his goal
Slavery was abolished the people were free
But only two third a southern decree
The republic with stood the brutal onslaught
Capturing the rebels stopping the plot
50yrs after the civil war
They put up a monument to lee's slavery once more
In two thousand and seventeen
They thought it was time the south came clean
Remove ole Lee off his high horse
But the white supremest and KKK had no remorse
They march on Charlottesville with torches a blaze
Singing Nazi slogans eyes filled with craze
Their hate of black and Jews they proclaimed
Three dead and trump said no one to blame
All people just want to live free
But hate filled hearts and ignorant animosity
Another day in racist America rose in Charlottesville
White Sheets and a rope looking for brother to kill
(Mary Custis was the wife of Robert E. Lee.
Union forces captured her ante-bellum
mansion in what is now Arlington Cemetery
and defiled it, because it was the only thing
of Lee's they could get their hands on.)
Suppose you kill Gaddafi and Hussein,
or sad old Nazis, huddled in the dock.
So what exactly do you think you gain?
Your own humanity is what you mock,
not them. The winners stringing-up the losers
can not be right. You heap your fury on
the halt and helpless. Beggars can’t be choosers,
but winners can. (Why not Ben-Gurion?)
Put Karadzic before a firing-squad
for spite, or just to entertain the flock,
but don’t disguise the ugly thing your lust is.
Don’t talk of Law, or Liberty, or God.
Go rape the home of absent Mary Custis,
if rape you must. Don’t dress it up as Justice.
Kilmarnock is two places split by Atlantic
one in Virginia other in Ayrshire
they are of different character straits
all bringing their own dimensions higher
The Virginia brand settled way back in early 1600s
originally known as ‘the Crossroads’ as it began
this charming small town is on east Peninsula
between Potomac and Rappahannock waters have ran
The Ayrshire version sits seven miles from coast
the largest town in all of Ayrshire county
famous for it’s whisky, carpets and bonnet making
becoming a royal burgh in 1672 was it’s bounty
In America’s ‘Killie’ town to admire so much
join the Chesapeake Bay wine trail few miles away
see the birth place of Washington and Robert E. Lee
so much to enjoy never fill it in a whole day
In Scotland’s ‘Killie’ town they remember
their national bard Robert Burns no less
his first printed works called ‘Kilmarnock’ edition
to read Rabbie’s words is a sure bless!
(Having recently came to know of a Kilmarnock in USA and having lived my first 36 years in Kilmarnock in Scotland, so thought I would try and bring their respective highs together in written form.)
(KILLIE- is Scots nickname for Kilmarnock)
Go get the water-for Robert E. LEE @ leave OUR FLAG ALONE
avoid the enemy
Get the damned eggs
in the morning
since u can not
assholes get them in the afternoon
She gave me a piece of
god dam pizza instead
God bless her it's not her fault
U are all down here because u ruined
your own lands
now u are ruining the south- my lands
Go back where u
came from
LOSERS!!!
Previously-Owned Car for Sale
By Elton Camp
(This write assumes knowledge of the
TV program “The Dukes of Hazzard.”)
This car just simply runs like a dream
That it can fly, it does almost seem
It’s owners so smoothly get in and out
The doors never loudly slammed about
The car windows are always kept down
It’s the most aired-out car that is around
Driving country roads you’ll never hate
It almost makes them seem as if straight
Even if it should somehow get a dent or two
Just an hour later, the car looks like new
The suspension’s redone, front end realigned
So it should never fail and leave you in a bind
It was mainly driven by two fine young men
Often used to transport their elderly uncle in
How much they loved the car you can see
Since they named it General Robert E. Lee
So if it is a noteworthy automobile you seek
This is one that can be described as “unique”
Come on around and buy this vehicle for a song
You can be certain that it won’t last very long
The horses of my childhood
Do you remember too
Mr. Ed and Fury
Just to name a few
Roy had his Trigger
Dale had Butter Cup
They were stuffed and mounted
When dead – just look it up
Spin and Marty had Skyrocket
On the Mickey Mouse Club show
Hoppy rode in on Topper
That’s one you might not know
When he rode in on his Traveller
Robert E. Lee looked stately
Comanche survived the Little Big Horn
You don’t hear of them much lately
Lone Ranger had his Silver
Paladin had his Rafter
The Cisco Kid - Diablo
They brought us tears and laughter
Which one was my favorite
Why – the last one that I’d seen
There upon my TV
Or on the movie screen
Mdailey 5/30/11
9th place finish in contest
There once was a man named Lee,
Who was called General Lee
His full name was Robert E. Lee
He was from the South
He was very Southerly
When the big fight broke out,
You could always count on Lee
To answer the call of his fellow brothers
He fought for the South
Very gentlemanly
When he lead, everyone followed
For you see, there was no one better then Lee
A rough and tough, till the very end
We Southerns will always miss you, General Lee.