There was bleeding on the bayou There was death in Dixieland There were former friends, neighbours, colleagues and kin All dying at each others hands And the litttle birdies and bunnies were choking On the stench made by the dead And the bluegrass hills of Kentucky Were stained red Yeah there was blood on the bayou And they were dead in Dixie
They were butchered on the Blueridge They were slaughtered in the South And the bodies were piling up faster Than the medics could cart the buggers out They'd never used these kind of weapons Or fought this kind of war So over dinner the officers stroked their chins And wondered why this never happened before
Yeah there was blood on the bayou And they were dead in Dixie
And many women lost their husbands And many mothers lost their sons And many children lost their fathers Still the sound of the weeping wouldn't drown out the guns And the fields that had been baked hard as asphalt Were now a bloody sludge As the armies of Ulysses and Robert E Lee Butchered each other in the hot Southern sun
Yeah there was blood on the bayou And they were dead in Dixie