Virgil Cain is my name And I served on the Danville train Till Stonewall's cavalry came And tore up the tracks again In the winter of sixty five We were hungry just barely alive. By May the tenth Richmond had fell. It was a time I remember all 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 La 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 I'm 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 the people were singing They went La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la.
Like my father before me I work the land. And like my brother above 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 the cane back up When it's in the feed.
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 La la la la la la la la La la la la la la la la la.
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 La la la la la la la
