The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Virgil Caine is my name And I served on the Danville train 'Till Stoneman's cavalry came And tore up the tracks again In the winter of sixty-five We were hungry, just barely alive By may tenth, Richmond had fell And it's a time that I remember, oh, so well The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singin, they went Na, na na na na na na na Na na, na na, na na, na na na Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she said to me Virgil, quick, come see, Virgil There goes Robert E. Lee Now, I dont mind choppin' wood And I don't care if the money's no good Just take what you need and you leave the rest But they never should have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singin, they went Na, na na na na na na na Na na, na na, na na, na na na Like my father before me I will work the land Like my brother above me He took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave And a yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud 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 ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing, they went Na, na na na na na na na Na na, na na, na na, na na na