The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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Virgil caine is the name, and i served on the danville train,



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'til stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.



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In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.



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By may the tenth, richmond had fell, it's a time i remember, oh so well,





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The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringing,



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The night they drove old dixie down, and the people were singin'. they went



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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 choppin' wood, and i don't care if the money's no good.



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Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,



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But they should never have taken the very best. (chorus)





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Like my father before me, i will work the land,



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Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.



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He was just eighteen, proud and brave, 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 a caine back up when he's in defeat.


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