G Alabama. Alabama. D Heat lightning from the Nick. Em All I see is project housing, C chicken bones and broken bricks. G Standing. I've been standing. D Best part of 80 years. Em With my Jim Crow benedictions C Ropes and hoods and local cheers. G Fighting. We were fighting. D And our namesake killed for Southern Gods. Em Dying. We were dying. C Lucifer's divining rod. G Selling. We were selling. D The bodies of black boys and girls. Em Yelling. We were yelling. C Rebel yell heard round the world. D Hey Now Baby I'm a Dead Confederate. D 80 years I've stood my ground. C I ain't sorry, I ain't regret it. C Now they're trying to tear me down. D Hey now baby I'm a dead confederate. D Rebel pride a heart of stone. C I ain't worried I ain't sweatin' it C G D Em C Wish they'd just leave me alone. Alone. Alone. G Snowflakes. August snowflakes. D Falling here in Birmingham. G And I never claimed to think too deep. D And I never said I understand. G Swallowing my granite pride, D Then haul me out to gravel pits. Em Forget that I lived and died, C Smash me up to gypsum bits. G Buying selling humans was D good work if you could get it. Em Well the South could build great pyramids C And rise up if you let it. G But they shine their light of righteousness D Upon my unclaimed darkest deeds. Em Pulling up my withered roots, C Poisoning my righteous seed. G And Jesus was a white man D And He promised we could rule. Em So we burn his holy cross in honor C Hang the Negro and the Fool. G Baby I will rise again, D Out on Highway 29 Em Meantime I rejoin the earth C Bide my wicked sands of time. D Hey Now Baby I'm a Dead Confederate. D 80 years I've stood my ground. C I ain't sorry, I ain't regret it. C Now their trying to tear me down D Hey now baby I'm a dead confederate. D Rebel pride heart of stone. C I ain't worried I ain't sweatin' it C G D Em C Wish they'd just leave me alone. Alone. Alone.