The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

(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.



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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...