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The Night They Drove Old Dixie
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Joan Baez
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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, it's a time I remember, oh, so well
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The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
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They went la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
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"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee"
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Now, I don't mind 'em 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 and the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
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They went la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
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Like my brother above me, I 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 and the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were singin'
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They went la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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