Joan Baez

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics

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Composers:
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Genres:
  • 70s
  • Folk
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  • female vocalist
  • joan baez
  • singer songwriter
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Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove 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
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well
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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"

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"

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
But he was just 18, proud and braveJoan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - http://motolyrics.com/joan-baez/the-night-they-drove-old-dixie-down-lyrics.html
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
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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"

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Ventura Théatre California (1989)
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1) Diamaond & rust

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2) The night they drove old Dixie down

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3) House of the rising sun

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