The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

Song information

Artist: The Band
Album: The Band

Lyrics

C am c/g f f/e dm
Virgil caine is the name, and I served on the danville train

Am c/g f f/e dm
'Til stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again

Am/e f c dm
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive

Am/e f c dm d
By may the tenth, richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well

(Chorus)

C/g fmaj7 c/g fmaj7
The night they drove old dixie down, and all the bells were ringing

C/g fmaj7 c/g fmaj7
The night they drove old dixie down, and all the people were singin'. they went

C/g am gsus4 f c
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

Am c f f/e dm
Back with my wife in tennessee, when one day she called to me

Am c f f/e dm
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the robert e. lee!"

Am/e f c dm
Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good

Am/e f
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest

C dm d
But they should never have taken the very best. (chorus)

Am c f f/e dm
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man

Am c f f/e dm
Like my brother before me, who took a rebel stand

Am/e f c dm
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a yankee laid him in his grave

Am/e f
I swear by the mud below my feet

C dm d
You can't raise a caine back up when he's in defeat. (chorus)