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Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
By May tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well
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, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na"
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
Virgil, quick, come and see, there goes Robert E. Lee
Now I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if my 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 all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na"
Like my father before me, I will work the land
And like my brother up above me, who took a rebel stand
He was just eighteen, proud and brave but a Yankee laid him in his grave
And I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he can defeat
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, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na"
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down and you can hear them all singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na"
