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Not to get on your bad side, but not even those men like me who are allies?

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First of all, the song was written by Robbie Robertson, a Canadian, and it is meant to be about the death of a dream (the CSA) and the mindset of Southerners as the loss of the Civil War became inevitable, and how some people never get over a very vile thing that they were part of.

After all, do you think that Joan Baez would do a (great) cover version of it if she thought it was pro-Confederacy?

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