The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics - Singles - Joan Baez

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train 

Till Stonemans 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 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" 

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Back with my wife in Tennessee and one day she said to me 

"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee" 

Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood 

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

Just take what you need and leave the rest 

But they should never have taken the very best 

Follow the bouncing arm 

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" 

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

And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand 

But 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 

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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"