The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
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 all 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 I'm chopping wood	
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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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The night they drove old Dixie down,
        Fm7
And the bells were ringing.
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The night they drove old Dixie down,
        Fm7  
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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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
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But a Yankee laid him in his grave
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I swear by the mud below my feet
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You can't raise the Cain back up when it's in defeat

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The night they drove old Dixie down
        Fm7
And the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down
        Fm7  
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."