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Song title: Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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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 stonemans 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, its 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 dont mind choppin wood, and I dont care if the moneys 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 cant raise a caine back up when hes in defeat.

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