The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
Am            C                 F                          Am
  Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
C               Am             F                       Am
 Till so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
F                     C               Am
 In the winter of 'sixtyfive, we were hungry,
         F
just barely alive
Am                    F
  I took the train to Richmond that fell
         C        Am                 D7
It was a time I remember, oh, so well

[Chorus]
         C     Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the bells were ringin'
    C          Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singin'
They went:
C            Am
 La, la, la, la, la, la
D7                  F
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la

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[Verse 2]
Am7 C/G    Am                   C
       Back  with my wife in Tennessee
    F                     Am
And one day she said to me
C             Am
 Virgil, quick  come see
F                           Am
There goes the Robert E. Lee
    F                C
Now I don't mind chopping wood
      Am                F
And I don't care if the money's no good
     Am                          F
Just take what you need and leave the rest
                C            Am               D7
But they should never have taken the very best

[Chorus]
         C     Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the bells were ringin'
    C          Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singin'
They went:
C            Am
 La, la, la, la, la, la
D7                  F
La, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la

[Break]
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[Verse 3]
Am                     C
  Like my father before me,
F                 Am
 I'm a working man
C                          Am
 And like my brother before  me,
F                    Am
 I took a rebel stand
           F
Oh, he was just eighteen,
     C
proud and brave
      Am              F
But a yankee laid him in his grave
  Am                      F
I swear by the blood below my feet
          C                    Am                   D7
You can't raise a Caine back up  when he's in defeat

[Chorus]
         C     Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the bells were ringin'
    C          Am        F         C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singin'
They went:
C            Am
 La, la, la, la, la, la
D7                  F
La, la, la, la, la, la
          Am
La, la, la