[ Night They Drove Old Dixie Down von Band ]



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Virgil Cain is my name and I served on the Danville train,
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Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
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In the winter of sixty-five we were hungry, just barely alive.
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By May the tenth Richmond had fell.
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It was a time I remember oh so well.


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The night they drove old Dixie down,
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And the bells were ringing.
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The night they drove old Dixie down,
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And the people were singing.  They went...
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"La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la."


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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me.
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"Virgil, quick!  Come see!  There goes Robert E. Lee!"
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Now I don't mind chopping wood, And I don't care if the money's no good.
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You take what you need and you leave the rest,
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But they should never have taken the very best.


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Like my father before me, I will work the land.
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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
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He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave.
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I swear by the blood below my feet,
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You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.


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 Instrumental:  C  C/B   Bb  Am   Ab  G

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