The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down By Robbie Robertson (As performed by Joan Baez) capo 1st fret C (x32010@1)Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) 'Til Stoneman's Calvery came and tore up the tracks again. F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive. Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1) By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well, (Chorus) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) FThe (133211@1)Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) FThe (133211@1)Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) CLa, (x32010@1) La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she said to me, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes a Robert E. Lee!" F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02220@1) F (133211@1) Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1) But they should never have taken the very best. (Chorus) Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) Like my father before me, I will work the land, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand. F (133211@1) C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, Am (x02210@1) F (133211@1) I swear by the mud below my feet, C (x32010@1) Am (x02210@1) D (xx0232@1) You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. (Chorus and fade)
