The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

(by The Band)

Virgil Caine is my 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 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 na na Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she called to me Virgil, quick come see! there goes the Robert E. Lee I don't mind chopping wood, I don't care if the money's no good Take what you need 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 na Like my father before me, I'm a peaceful man Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand Just 18, proud and brave, when a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood running below my feet You 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 na

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