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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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Virgil Cain is my name and I served on the Danville train,

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C
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Till Stonewall's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.

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C
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In the winter of sixty-five we were hungry, just barely alive.

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By May the tenth Richmond had fell.

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D

It was a time I remember all so well.

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Chorus

The night they drove old Dixie down,

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And the bells were ringing.

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C

The night they drove old Dixie down,

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And the people were singing. They went...

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Am
G
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"La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la."

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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me.

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"Virgil, quick! Come see! There goes Robert E. Lee!"

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Now I don't mind I'm chopping wood,

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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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D

But they should never have taken the very best.

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The night they drove old Dixie down,

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And the bells were ringing.

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C
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The night they drove old Dixie down,

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And the people were singing. They went...

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Am
G
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"La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la."

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Like my father before me, I'm a working man.

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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.

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He was just eighteen, proud and brave,

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But a Yankee laid him in his grave.

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I swear by the mud below my feet,

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You can't raise the cane back up when it's in the feed.

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C
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Chorus

The night they drove old Dixie down,

F

And the bells were ringing.

F
C
C

The night they drove old Dixie down,

F

And the people were singing. They went...

C
Am
G
F

"La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la."

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Chorus

The night they drove old Dixie down,

F

And the bells were ringing.

F
C
C

The night they drove old Dixie down,

F

And the people were singing. They went...

C
Am
G
F

"La la la la la la, la la la la la la la la la."

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