The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down keyboard

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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Virgil Cain is my name, and I served on the Danville train   
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Till 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 10th, Richmond had fell   
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And it's a time I remember, oh, so well.  
  
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down  
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And all the bells were ringing,   
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down  
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And all the people were singing,  they went   
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Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.   
  
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,   
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"Virgil, quick come see! Virgi,l there goes the Robert E. Lee."   
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Now I don't mind choppin' wood   
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And I don't care if the money's no good.   
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Just take what you need and you leave the rest   
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But they never should have taken the very best.   
  
(Chorus)   
  
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Like my father before me, I will work the land   
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And like my brother before me, who took a rebel stand.   
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He was just 18 proud and brave   
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 But a Yankee laid him in his grave.   
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I swear my the mud below my feet   
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You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.   
  
(Chorus)   

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