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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
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Virgil Caine is my name and I worked on the Gatlin' train
Till Sherman'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
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 singing
They went na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
ย
Back with my wife in Tennessee
'Til one day she says to me
Virgil, quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee
But 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 singing
They went na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
ย
Like my father before me I will work the land
And 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
Can't raise a Caine 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 singing
They went na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
ย
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 singing
They went na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
ย