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Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train, 'Till Stoneman's cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's 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 "La, la, la-la, la, la, la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la" Back with my wife in Tennesee, when one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the 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 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 "La, la, la-la, la, la, la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la" Like my father before me, I will work the land And like my brother above me, who 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 the cane back up when it's in the feed 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 "La, la, la-la, la, la, la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la" |