The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

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Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville train 
Till 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 was a time I remember oh so well 
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 singin' 
They went Na, Na, Na, Na.... 
Back with my wife in Tennessee till one day she says to me 
Virgil quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee 
And I don't mind choppin' wood 
And I don't care if the money's no good 
You take what you can and leave the rest 
But they should never have taken the very best 
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 singin' 
They went Na, Na, Na, Na.... 
Like my father before me, I will work the land 
Like my brother below 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 beneath my feet 
You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat 
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 singin' 
They went Na, Na, Na, Na.... 
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