The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down               
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Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the       
Danville train, Til Stonewall's cavalry came and  
tore up the tracks again. In the winter of        
' 65, we were hungry, just barely alive. By       
May the tenth, Richmond had 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 ringing. The           
    night they drove old Dixie down, and          
    all the people were singing. They             
    went, "Na na na na na na na na na na          
    na na na na."                                 
                                                  
Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she said  
to me. "Virgil, quick come see, here comes the    
Robert E. Lee." Well I don't mind chopping wood,  
And I don't care if my money's no good. You take  
what you need and leave the rest, But they        
should never have taken the very best.            
                                                  
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Like my father before me, I will work the land.   
And like my brother up above me, I took a rebel   
stand. He was just eighteen, proud and brave,     
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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