
Date of issue: 31.12.2005
Record label: Vanguard
Song language: English
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down |
Virgil Kane is the name |
And I served on the Danville train |
'Till Stoneman’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 |
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 singing |
They went, «Na, na, la, na, na, 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 chopping wood |
And I don’t care if the money’s no good |
You take what you need |
And you 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 singing |
They went, «Na, na, la, na, na, la» |
Like my father before me I will work the land |
And 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 Kane back up When he’s in defeat |
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, la, na, na, la» |
The night they drove old Dixie down |
And all the bells were ringing |
The night they drove old Dixie down |
And the people were singing |
They went, «Na, na, la, na, na, la» |
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