The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Virgil Caine is my name
I drove on the Danville train
'Till so much cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It's a time I remember, oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "la, la, la, la, la"
Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she says to me
She says, "Virgil, come quick and see,
There goes the Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And leave the rest
But they should never
Have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "la, la, la, la, la"
Like my father before me
I'm a working man
Like my brother before me
I took me a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up
When he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "la, la, la, la, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, la, na, na, la"
