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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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 sixty-five

We were hungry just barely alive

By May tenth Richmond had fell

It was a time I remember oh so wellThe night they drove old Dixie down

And the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the people were singing, they went

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, laLike my father before me I will work the land (note 1)

And like my brother above me who took a rebel stand

He was just eighteen, proud and brave

When a Yankee laid him in his grave

I swear by the mud below my feet

You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeatThe night they drove old Dixie down

And the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the people were singing, they went

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, laBack with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me (note 2)

Virgil, quick come see, there goes 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 keep the rest

But they should never have taken the very bestThe night they drove old Dixie down

And the bells were ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the people were singing, they went

La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la, la

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