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The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (J. Robbie Robertson) Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive By May the 10th Richmond had fell, it was a night I remember oh so well. Chorus: The night they drove old Dixie down and all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singing They went, Na nana... Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me `Virgil, quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee' Now I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good Ya take what ya need and leave the rest, but they should never have taken the very best. Chorus Like my father before me I will work the land Like my brother above me who took a rebel stand He was just 18, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet, you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. Chorus (twice) |
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