t**le: The night they drove old dixie down (Live)
Artist: Joan Baez
Virgil Caine is my name
and I drove on the Danville train,
'til so much cavalry came
and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of sixty-five,
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 ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down,
and the people were singing
They went "Na, na, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"
Back with my wife in Tennesee,
and one day she said to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
there goes the 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.
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, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"
Like my father before me,
I'm a working man
And like my brother before me,
I took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane 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 the people were singing
They went "Na, na, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"
Artist: Joan Baez
Virgil Caine is my name
and I drove on the Danville train,
'til so much cavalry came
and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of sixty-five,
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 ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down,
and the people were singing
They went "Na, na, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"
Back with my wife in Tennesee,
and one day she said to me
"Virgil, quick, come see,
there goes the 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.
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, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"
Like my father before me,
I'm a working man
And like my brother before me,
I took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane 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 the people were singing
They went "Na, na, na-na, na,
na, na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na"