The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974

Lyrics for The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - Live at LA Forum, Inglewood, CA - February 1974

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again In the winter of 65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May 10 Richmond had fell, it's a time 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 singin', they went Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me Said, "Virgil, quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee" Now I don't mind choppin' wood And I don't care if my money's no good You take what you need and you 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 singin', they went Like my father before me, I will work the land And like my brother up above me, who took a rebel stand He was just 18, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave And I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat 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 singin', they went The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And hear the sheer mob were singin', they went