Retro Lyrics

 

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    

 


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