The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

PLAY THE BAND The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down video C Am CG F FE Dm
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,

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`Til Stoneman`s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.

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In the winter of `65, We were hungry, just barely alive.

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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it`s a time I remember, oh so well,


(Chorus)

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin`. They went

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La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,


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Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,

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