The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Virgil Caine is my name

And I served on the Danville train

'Till Stoneman's cavalry came

And tore up the tracks again

In the winter of sixty-five

We were hungry, just barely alive

By may tenth, Richmond had fell

And it's a time that 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 all the people were singin, they went

Na, na na na na na na na

Na na, na na, na na, na na na

Back with my wife in Tennessee

When one day she said to me

Virgil, quick, come see, Virgil

There goes Robert E. Lee

Now, I dont mind choppin' wood

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

Just take what you need and you leave the rest

But they never should 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 all the people were singin, they went

Na, na na na na na na na

Na na, na na, na na, na na na

Like my father before me

I will work the land

Like my brother above me

He took a rebel stand

He was just eighteen, proud and brave

And a yankee laid him in his grave

I swear by the mud 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 ringing

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing, they went

Na, na na na na na na na

Na na, na na, na na, na na na