The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (alternate mix) Lyrics

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Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,

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'til 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, its a time I remember, oh so well,

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The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringing,

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The night they drove old dixie down, and the people were singin', they went

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La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,

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

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Now I dont mind choppin wood, and I dont care if the moneys no good.

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Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
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But they should never have taken the very best. (chorus)

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Like my father before me, I will work the land,

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Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.

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He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a yankee laid him in his grave,

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I swear by the mud below my feet,

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You cant raise a Caine back up when hes in defeat.