If the commemoration of the Civil War Sesquicentennial here in Virginia were to follow the outline of Governor McDonnell’s Confederate History Month proclamation, it would look and sound like this.
“Give a Rebel Yell”
April 15, 2010 @KevinLevin
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HILARIOUS!!
Anyone for a blast of Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell”? Totally irrelevant, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToeY7MkCm0c
The lyrics are a bit more, um, raunchy.
She don’t like slavery, she won’t sit and beg
But when I’m tired and lonely she sees me to bed
What set you free and brought you to be me babe
What set you free I need you hear by me
Because
In the midnight hour she cried- “more, more, more”
With a rebel yell she cried- “more, more, more”
In the midnight hour babe- “more, more, more”
With a rebel yell- “more, more, more
What?
At no point did somebody yell, “Are you ready for some football?!”
Mayhap I have my songs mixed up…