The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville

train

'til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks

again

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

By May the tenth, Richmond had fell

It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na"

Back with my wife in Tenesse

when one day she said to me,

"Virgil, Quick! Come and see!

There goes Robert E. Lee."

Now I don't mind choppin' wood

And I don't care if the money's no good

Just take what you need and you leave the rest

They should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na"

Like my father before me, I'm a working man

Like my brother before me, who took a rebel stand

Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave

When 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 ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na"

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na"