I've got this in an Alan Lomax collection at home and can't get to it right now, but my recollection is that it was written as a music-hall satire by Innes Randolph, who served under JEB Stewart. He apparently got tired of listening to former Confederate soldiers whining about the loss and sorta put all their complaints into the song. It was apparently received with much mirth in both the north and the south. The tune Lomax sets out is pretty strange — some weird minor chords — and I, like the others, use a different tune. I just made mine up.

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