The Battle of Charlottesville
General Robert E Lee is
Sitting on a stallion right in front of me
The town says they’re gonna
Take the old statue down
So, white supremicists
Come snaking through the streets
Like something out of Genesis
I can’t believe my eyes
Cause neither side
Is gonna back down
(Chorus)
When the war
You’re fighting for
Is born out of something disgraceful
You ain’t fighting honorably,
General Lee
Friday night out on parade
With their citronella tiki torches
Townspeople left their porches
To block the way
And you can hear the hate
In the words they shout
The cameras caught their faces
‘Fore the torch blew out
You should of worn the hood
You’re up to no good
Tomorrow’s judgement day
Saturday the protest was cancelled
A helicopter crashed,
It was too hot to handle
Two copes down
Skirmishes broke ‘round town
Lives blown out like a candle
A President who loves a scandal
He wouldn’t take a side
Though people died
And Heather Heyer got mowed down
Bridge
For a hundred and fifty years
We’ve come so far
But you haven’t moved an inch
We will not flinch
There’s no one here to lynch