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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

By: J R (Robbie) Robertson 1969 [1]
Performed: The Band, Joan Baez [2]
Bm D G Bm
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
D Bm G Bm
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
G D Bm G
In the winter of sixty five, we were hungry, just barely alive
Bm G
By May the tenth Richmond had fell
D Bm E E
It was a time I remember, oh so well
 
D Bm G D
The night they drove old Dixie down
Bm
And all the bells were ringing
D Bm G D
The night they drove old Dixie down
Bm
And all the people were singing
D Bm E G G
They went "Naa, na-na naa na-na, na-naa, na-naa, naa naa na na naa"
 
Bm D G Bm
Back with my wife in Tennessee, and one day she called to me
D Bm G Bm
Virgil, quick come see, there goes the Robert E Lee
G D Bm G
Now I don't mind chopping wood, and I don't care if the money's no good
Bm G
You just take what you need and you leave the rest
D Bm E E
But they should never have taken the very best
 
 
Bm D G Bm
Like my father before me, I will work the land
D Bm G Em
Just like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
G D Bm G
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
Bm G
I swear by the mud below my feet
D Bm E E
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
 
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Created 2009 Sep 15 13:29

This is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.

tahi Page last modified on 2010 Jun 19 15:59

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