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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Jerry Garcia Band



     
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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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The Jerry Garcia Band was an American rock band led by Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead. Garcia started the band in 1975. Of his many side projects, this was the main one, until his death in 1995. Jerry Garcia Band employs many of the same elements and similar style to the Grateful Dead. Jerry Garcia Band played rock music that was influenced by blues, folk, country, and jazz. Over the years, the lineup of the Jerry Garcia Band changed a number of times. The one constant member besides Garcia himself was bassist John Kahn.


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