The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Joan Baez

1. Virgil Cain is my name
   and I drove on the Donville train
   Till Stoneman`s cavalry came
   and tore up the tracks again
   In the winter ofsixtyfive,
   we were hungry, just barely alive
   I drove a train to  Richmond, Nefelle
   It was time I remember very well

R: The night they drove old Dixie down,
   and all the bells were ringing
   The night they drove old Dixie down,
   and all the people were singing
   (they went:) Naa nana naa nana na naa na naa na naa naa na naa na na naa

2. Back with my wife in Tennessee,
   one day she said to me:
   "Virgil, quick come see,
   there goes Robert E. Lee"
   Now, I don`t mind choppin` wood,
   and I don`t care if the money`s no good
   You take what you need and you leave the rest
   But they should never have taken the very best

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3. Like my father before me,
   I`m working man
   Like my brother above me,
   I took a rebel stand
   He was eighteen, proud and brave,
   but a Yankee laid him in his grave
   I swear by blood beneath my feet,
   you can`t raise a Cain back up when he`s in defeat

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