Michael Hoover
>>> jdevine03 at gmail.com 01/11/06 6:46 PM >>>
it's _the_ Robert E. Lee in the song. That's a _ship_ (a riverboat), not
a Southern General that the song is referring to.
Jim Devine
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believe above is specific to baez's version, she added word 'the', it is not in original by the band, robbie robertson's lyric is absent word 'the', levon helm does sing the lyric as "a robert lee" in live versions, interestingly, lee did not travel through tennessee following civil war... mh
-------------------------------------------------------------- Yes, but didn't Lee (and Longstreet) conduct some minor campaign in Eastern Tennessee after the Cheat Mountain fiasco? I swear I remember something about that from my Civil War studies many years ago. I guess I'll have to Google it sometime.