The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Lyrics:

• Virgil Caine is the name, and I served 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's a time I remember, oh so well
• 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 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 ya leave the rest,
• But they should never have taken the very best
• 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,


• Like my father before me, I will work the land
• 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
• I swear by the mud below my feet,
• You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
• The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
• The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin', they went
• Na, la, na, la, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na,


• The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,
• The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin', they went
• Na, la, na, la, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na