Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics - The Buck Owen's Buckaroos

Virgil Cane is my name 

And I served on the Denville train 

Till Stoneman's calvary came 

And tore up the tracks again 

In the winter of '65 

We were hungry just barely alive 

I made 10th to Richmond that fell 

It was the time that 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 singing 

They went la, la, la, la, la 

Back with my wife in Tennessee 

Well, one day she called to me 

Virgil quick come see 

That there goes Robert E Lee 

Now I don't mind choppin' woods 

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

You take what you 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 singing 

They went la, la, la, la, la 

Like my father before me 

I'm a working man 

And like my brother that'll love me 

He took the rebel stand 

But he was just eighteen 

Proud and brave 

And a Yankee 

Laid him in his grave 

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 singing 

They went la, la, la, la, la