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Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train |
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'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again |
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In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive |
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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell |
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It's a time I remember, oh so well |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And the bells were ringing |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And the people were singing |
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They went, "La, la, la" |
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me |
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"Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee" |
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Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good |
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Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest |
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But they should never have taken the very best |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And the bells were ringing |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And all the people were singing |
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They went, "La, la, la" |
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Like my father before me, I will work the land |
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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand |
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He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave |
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I swear by the mud below my feet |
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You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And the bells were ringing |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And all the people were singing |
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They went, "Na, na, na" |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And all the bells were ringing |
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The night they drove old Dixie down |
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And the people were singing |
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They went, "Na, na, na" |
