The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
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EmVirgil GCain is my name and CI drove on the EmDanville train
GTill Stoneman's Emcavalry came Cand tore up the Emtracks again
CIn the winter of G'65, we Emwere hungry, Cjust barely alive
EmI drove a train to CRichmond, Nefelle. It was Ga time I Emremember Avery well
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The Gnight they Emdrove Cold GDixie down, and all Emthe bells were ringin'
The Gnight they Emdrove Cold GDixie down, and all Emthe people were singin', (they went)
G"Naa na-na Emnaa na-Ana, na-naa na-naa Cna-naa naa na-naa na-GnaG-naa"
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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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