Black Crowes The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down
Virgil Cane is my name and I served on the Denville train Till Stoneman's calvary came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65 we were hungry just barely alive By May the 10th at Richmond had fell it was the time that 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 all the people were singing They went la la la la la la la la la la
Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me Virgil quick come see there goes Robert E Lee I don't mind the choppin' woods and I don't care if the money's no good Just take what you need and leave the rest But they never sould have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down...
Like my father before me I'm a working man And like my brother before me I took a rebel stand 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 he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down...