The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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Virgil Caine 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 '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.  
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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell.   
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It was a time I remember oh, so well.  


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The night they drove old Dixie down,  and all the bells were ringing, 
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The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singing. 
They went, 
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"Naa na-na naa na-na, na 
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Na na na na na na na na na"   

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,  
"Virgil, quick, come see: there goes Robert E. Lee!"  
Now, I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if my money's no good.  
Just take what you need and leave the rest  
But they should never have taken the very best.  

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Like my father before me, I will work the land.  
And, like my brother before me, who took a rebel stand.  
He was just 18, proud and brave, when a Yankee laid him in his grave.  
I swear by the mud below my feet,  
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.  

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