THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
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1. Virgil Cain is my name and I served on the
Danville train,
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till 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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I drove a train to Richmond, Nefelle. It was a
time I remember very well.
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The night they drove old Dixie down, and all
the bells were ringin'
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The night they drove old Dixie down, and all
the people were singin',
(they went)
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"Naa
na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa na-na-naa"
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2. Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she
said to me,
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"Virgil, quick come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee."
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Now. I
don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
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You
take what you need and you leave the rest,
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but
they should never have taken the very best.
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3. Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man,
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and like
my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
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He was eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave,
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I
swear by the blood beneath my feet,
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you
can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat. + CHORUS
(Joan Baez)