The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down Lyrics - Black Crowes

Virgil Caine is my name, and I served on the Danville train 

Til Stonewall's Calvery came and tore up the tracks again 

In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive 

By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, 

it's a time I remember oh so well 

The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringin' 

The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin' 

They went 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, there goes Robert E. Lee 

Well I don't mind choppin' wood, 

and I don't care if the money's no good 

Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest 

They never should have taken the very best 

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Like my father before me, I will work the land 

Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand 

He was just eighteen, proud and brave, 

til a Yankee laid him in his grave 

I swear by the mud beneath my feet 

You can't raise a Caine when he's in defeat 

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