THE NIGHT THEY DROVE
OLD DIXIE DOWN
Virgil Caine is my name
And I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65
We were hungry just barely alive
By May the tenth Richmond had fell
It's a time I remember oh so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singin'
They went 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 the Robert E. Lee
Now I don't mind choppin' wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
Like my father before me
I will work the land
Like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand
He was just 18 proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat