The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
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EmVirgil GCain is my name andC I drove on the DanvilEmle train
GTill Stoneman'sEm cavalry came anCd tore up the tracEmks again
CIn the winter of G'65, we weEmre hungry, juCst barely alive
EmI drove a train toC Richmond, Nefelle. It was Ga time IEm remember Avery well
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The Gnight theyEm drove olCd DiGxie down, and all Emthe bells were ringin'
The Gnight theyEm drove olCd DiGxie down, and all Emthe people were singin', (they went)
G"Naa na-naEm naa na-nAa, na-naa na-naa Cna-naa naa na-naa na-naG G-naa"
Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she said to me
"Virgil, quick come see, there goes the 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 you leave the rest,
but they should never have taken the
very best.
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Like my father before me, I'm a workin'man
Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand
He was eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood beneath my feet,
you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat.
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