BOB DYLAN - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

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Virgil caine is the name,<br>And I served on the danville train,<br>'til stoneman's cavalry<br>Came and tore up the tracks again.<br>In the winter of '65,<br>We were hungry, just barely alive.<br>By may the tenth, richmond had fell,<br>It's a time I remember, oh so well,<br><br>The night they drove old dixie down,<br>And the bells were ringing,<br>The night they drove old dixie down,<br>And the people were singin'.<br><br>They went<br>La, la, la, la, la, la,<br>La, la, la, la, la, la,<br>La, la,<br><br>Back with my wife in tennessee,<br>When one day she called to me,<br>Virgil, quick, come see,<br>There goes robert e. lee!<br>Now I don't mind choppin' wood,<br>And I don't care if the money's no good.<br>Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,<br>But they should never have taken the very best.<br><br>The night they drove old dixie down,<br>And the bells were ringing,<br>The night they drove old dixie down,<br>And the people were singin'.<br><br>Like my father before me,<br>I will work the land,<br>Like my brother above me,<br>Who took a rebel stand.<br>He was just eighteen, proud and brave,<br>But a yankee laid him in his grave,<br>I swear by the mud below my feet,<br>You can't raise a caine back up<br>When he's in defeat.