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Virgil Cane is my name and I drove on the Danville train
Till Stonewall's calvary came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive I took the train to Richmond, it fell It was 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 singing, they went Na... na na na na na... na na, na na, na na... Na na na... Back with my wife in Tennessee and one day she said to me, "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee" Now I don't mind 'em chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good Just take what you need and 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 singing, they went Na... na na na na na... na na, na na, na na... Na na na... Like my father before me... I'm a working man And like my brother before me, I took a Rebel stand Well he was just eighteen, proud and brave But a yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood, below my feet You can't raise a Cane back up, when it'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 singing, they went Na... na na na na na... na na, na na, na na... Na na na... Joan Baez |
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