Big Country - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

Virgil Caine is my name and I worked on the Danville train 'Till Sherman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the Winter of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive By May the 10th Richmond had fell 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, nah, nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah... Back with my wife in Tennessee So one day she says to me "Virgil, quick come see, there goes Robert E. Lee" Well I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good You take what you can 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, nah, nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah... Like my father before me I will work the land Like my brother below me I took a rebel stand He was just 18, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud beneath my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he'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, nah, nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah 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, nah, nah nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah