The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Joan Baez

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1.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
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  we were hungry just barely alive
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  I drove a train to Richmond, Nefelle
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  it was a time I remember very well.
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R:The night they drove old Dixie down
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  and all the bells were ringin'
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  the night they drove old Dixie down
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  and all the people were singin'
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  na na na ...      
2.Back with my wife in Tennessee one day she said to me
  "Virgil quick come see there goes the Robert E. Lee"
  Now I don't mind choppin' wood
  and I don't care if the money's no good
  you take what you need and you leave the rest
  but they should never have taken the very best.
R:3. Like my father before me I'm a workin' man
  and like my brother above me I took a rebel stand
  he was eighteen proud and brave
  but a Yankee laid him in his grave
  I swear by the blood beneath my feet
  you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat.