Big Country - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics
Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville trainTill Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks againIn the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely aliveBy May the tenth, Richmond had fellIt was a time I remember oh so wellThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the bells were ringingThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the people were singin'They went Na, Na, Na, Na....Back with my wife in Tennessee till one day she says to meVirgil quick, come see, there goes Robert E. LeeAnd I don't mind choppin' woodAnd I don't care if the money's no goodYou take what you can and leave the restBut they should never have taken the very bestThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the bells were ringingThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the people were singin'They went Na, Na, Na, Na....Like my father before me, I will work the landLike my brother below me, I took a rebel standHe was just eighteen, proud and braveBut a Yankee laid him in his graveI swear by the mud beneath my feetYou can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeatThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the bells were ringingThe night they drove Old Dixie downAnd all the people were singin'They went Na, Na, Na, Na....(Repeat)
