Vince Gill - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

[Verse 1] Virgil Caine is the name And I served on the Danville train Until stone man's cavalry came And tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65 We were hungry just barely alive By May the tenth, when Richmond had fell It's a time I remember, oh so. well [Chorus] The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went na, na, na, na, na, na [Verse 2] Back with my wife in Tennessee When one day she called to me Said, "Virgil, quick come see' There goes Robert E Lee" And I don't mind chopping wood And I don't care if my money's no good You take what you need and you leave the rest But they should never have taken the very best [Chorus] [Verse 3] Like my father before me I'm a working man And like my brother above Me who took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave But a Yankee laid him in his grave And I swear by the mud, Below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up When he's in defeat [Chorus][x2]