The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (W-Vince Gill)

<p>[Verse 1]<br/>Virgil Caine is the name<br/>And I served on the Danville train<br/>Until stone man&#x27;s cavalry came<br/>And tore up the tracks again<br/>In the winter of &#x27;65<br/>We were hungry just barely alive<br/>By May the tenth, when Richmond had fell<br/>It&#x27;s a time I remember, oh so. well<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/>The night they drove old Dixie down<br/>And the bells were ringing<br/>The night they drove old Dixie down<br/>And all the people were singing<br/>They went na, na, na, na, na, na<br/>[Verse 2]<br/>Back with my wife in Tennessee<br/>When one day she called to me<br/>Said, &quot;Virgil, quick come see&#x27;<br/>There goes Robert E Lee&quot;<br/>And I don&#x27;t mind chopping wood<br/>And I don&#x27;t care if my money&#x27;s no good<br/>You take what you need and you leave the rest<br/>But they should never have taken the very best<br/><br/>[Chorus]<br/><br/>[Verse 3]<br/>Like my father before me<br/>I&#x27;m a working man<br/>And like my brother above<br/>Me who took a rebel stand<br/>He was just eighteen, proud and brave<br/>But a Yankee laid him in his grave<br/>And I swear by the mud, Below my feet<br/>You can&#x27;t raise a Caine back up<br/>When he&#x27;s in defeat<br/><br/>[Chorus][x2]