The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

C  am	     c/g			   f	  f/e	   dm

Virgil caine is the name, and i served on the danville train,



Am		     c/g	      f 	  f/e	  dm

'til stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.



Am/e		    f		 c	      dm

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



Am/e		       f			     c	  dm		d

By may the tenth, richmond had fell, it's a time i remember, oh so well,





(chorus)



C/g	     fmaj7	   c/g		 fmaj7

The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringing,



C/g	    fmaj7	    c/g 	  fmaj7

The night they drove old dixie down, and the people were singin'.  they went



C/g	    am		    gsus4		    f		  c

La,  la, la, la, la, la,	 la, la, la, la, la, la,    la, la,





Am		   c		   f	       f/e	 dm

Back with my wife in tennessee, when one day she called to me,



Am	     c		      f 	 f/e	   dm

"virgil, quick, come see, there goes robert e. lee!"



Am/e	       f		    c		      dm

Now i don't mind choppin' wood, and i don't care if the money's no good.



Am/e			   f

Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,



C		    dm		   d

But they should never have taken the very best.	 (chorus)





Am		     c	      f      f/e      dm

Like my father before me, i will work the land,



Am		  c	    f	       f/e   dm

Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.



Am/e 		 f		   c			 dm

He was just eighteen, proud and brave,  but a yankee laid him in his grave,



Am/e		      f

I swear by the mud below my feet,



C			    dm		      d

You can't raise a caine back up when he's in defeat.


more free lyrics