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Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

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  • By J.R.Robertson.
  • © 1970 Canaan Music, Inc.
  • Virgil Caine is the 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 tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,
  • (Chorus)
  • The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
  • The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went
  • La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,
  • Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she said to me,
  • "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
  • Now I don't mind'em choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
  • Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
  • But they should never have taken the very best.
  • (Chorus)
  • Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man,
  • Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
  • He was just eighteen, 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 and fade)

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