Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

Virgil Caine is my name and I
Drove on the Danville train
Till so much cavalry came and
Tore up the tracks again
In the winter of 'sixty-five, we were hungry
Just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well

Back with my wife in Tennessee
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

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me
I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just eighteen, 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

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin' they went:
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la la, la, la