The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

[Verse 1]

Virgil Caine is the name

And I served on the Danville train

Until stone man's cavalry came

And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65

We were hungry just barely alive

By May the tenth, when Richmond had fell

It's a time I remember, oh so. well

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The night they drove old Dixie down

And the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing

They went na, na, na, na, na, na

[Verse 2]

Back with my wife in Tennessee

When one day she called to me

Said, "Virgil, quick come see'

There goes Robert E Lee"

And I don't mind chopping wood

And I don't care if my money's no good

You take what you need and you leave the rest

But they should never have taken the very best

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[Verse 3]

Like my father before me

I'm a working man

And like my brother above

Me who took a rebel stand

He was just eighteen, proud and brave

But a Yankee laid him in his grave

And I swear by the mud, Below my feet

You can't raise a Caine back up

When he's in defeat

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