Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
I took the train to Richmond, it fell, it was a time 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
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
Now I don't mind' choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest,
but they should never 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
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
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 the cane back up when it's in the seed.
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
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
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