Key: B
Introduction:
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Virgil Cain is my name, and I served on the Danville train
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Till Stonewall's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again
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In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
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By May 10th, Richmond had fell
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And it's a time, I remember oh so well.
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down
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And all the bells were ringin'
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down
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And all the people were singing they went
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Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day, she called to me
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Virgil, quick come see, Virgil there goes the Robert E. Lee
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Now I don't mind choppin' wood
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And I don't care if the money's no good
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Just take what you need and you leave the rest
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But they never should have taken, the very best.
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Like my father before me, I will work the land
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And like my brother above me, he took a rebel stand
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He was just 18 proud and brave
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And a Yankee, laid him in his grave
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I swear my the mud below my feet
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You can't raise the king back up when he's in defeat.