The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics - John Denver

This song appears on two albums, and was first released on the Whose Garden Was 

This? album, and has also been released on the Changes album. 

Virgil Caine is the name, I served on the Danville Train 

So much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again 

In the summer of sixty-five we were hungry just barely alive 

By May the tenth Richmond had fell it's a time I remember 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 la na na na na na la na na na na na na na 

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Back home in Tennessee my wife called out for me 

Say Virgil come quick and see there goes Robert E Lee 

I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if da money ain't good 

You take what you need and save the rest but they should never have taken the 

very best 

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 la na na na na na la na na na na na na na 

Like my father before me he was a workin' man 

Like my brother above me he took a rebel's stand 

He was just eighteen proud and brave when a Yankee laid him in his grave 

I swear by the blood beneath my feet you can't raise a Caine back up when he's 

in defeat 

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 la na na na na na la na na na na na na na 

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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 la na na na na na la na na na na na na na... 

Words and music by R Robertson