The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train

Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again

In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive

I took the train to Richmond that fell

It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the were people singin'

They went, naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa

na-na-naa

Back with my wife in Tenessee

And one day she said to me

Virgil, quick come see

There goes the Robert E. Lee

Now I don't mind chopping wood

And I don't care if the money's no good

Just take what you need and leave the rest

But they should never have taken the very best

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

And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand

Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave

But a yankee laid him in his grave

I swear by the blood below my feet

You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat