It doesn't matter whether the guy was admired or not. It's like "gee mom, there's Pres. Bush."
On 1/12/06, Michael Hoover <hooverm at scc-fl.edu> wrote:
> >>> 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
> <<<<<>>>>>
>
> 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
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