Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train 'til so
much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we
were hungry, just barely alive I took the train to Richmond that fell It
was a time I remember, oh, so well
The night they drove old Dixie
down And all the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin' They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ....
"
Back with my wife in Tennessee And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see! There goes Robert E. Lee." Now I don't mind,
I'm chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good Just take what
you need 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
ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were
singin' They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "
Like my
father before me, I'm a working man And like my brother before me, I
took a rebel stand Oh, he was just 18, 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 And all the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin' They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na,
..... "
Virgil Caine is the 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, 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!" 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
The night they drove old
Dixie down and the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie
down and all the people were singin', they went Na-na-na na-na-na,
na-na-na na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Like my father before me, I will
work the land And like my brother before me, who took a rebel
stand
He was just eighteen, 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
The night they drove old Dixie oown
and the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down and all
the people were singin', they went Na-na-na na-na-na, na-na-na na-na-na,
na-na-na-na
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the bells
were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down and the people were
singin', they went Na-na-na na-na-na, na-na-na na-na-na,
na-na-na-na
