Band The The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
'Til 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 all the people
were singin',
They went Na,  Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na, Na

Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to
me,
"Virgil, quick, come and 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 all the people were singin',
They went Na,  Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na

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.