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Buck Owens Lyrics for Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
 Lyrics for Album: Rompin' & Stompin' [1970]
 
 
 
 21110>(Jaime R. Robertson)
 
 
 
 Virgil Cane is my name and I served on the Denville train
 
 Till Stoneman's calvary came and tore up the tracks again
 
 In the winter of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive
 
 I made 10th to Richmond that fell
 
 It was the 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 singing.
 
 They went la la la la la.
 
 
 
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 Back with my wife in Tennessee
 
 Well. one day she called to me
 
 Virgil quick come see that
 
 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 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 all the people were singing.
 
 They went la la la la la.
 
 
 
 --- Instrumental ---
 
 
 
 Like my father before me
 
 I'm a working man
 
 And like my brother that'll love me
 
 He took the rebel stand.
 
 
 
 But he was just eighteen, proud and brave
 
 And a yankee laid him in his grave.
 
 
 
 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 la la la la la...
 
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| Album Lyrics: Rompin' & Stompin' [1970] |  
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  Buck Owens
 "Rompin' & Stompin' [1970]"
 
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