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                  THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - The Band
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Tabbed by: Russ Pinkston
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Tuning: Standard

INTRO
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Am     G                       F             Em       Dm
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
Am              G                F           Em     Dm
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
Em               F                  C            Dm
In the winter of sixty-five we were hungry, just barely alive.
Em               F                        C      Dm              D
By May the tenth Richmond had fell it?s a time I remember oh so well.

C              F               C
The night they drove old Dixie down
        F
And the bells were ringing
    C          F               C
The night they drove old Dixie down
            F  
And all the people were singing
         C         F        Dm       F           
They went la la la la la la la la la la la la la.

BREAK
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Am                   G              F           Em        Dm
Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
Am       G             F          Em        Dm      
Virgil, quick come see there goes Robert E. Lee!
    Em           F                   C                 Dm         
Now I don t mind chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good.
    Em                         F                              C          Dm             D   
You take what you need and you leave the rest but they should never have taken the very best.

CHORUS
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Am               G       F      Em         Dm
Like my father before me I will work the land
Am                   G       F          Em      Dm
And like my brother above me who took a rebel stand
       Em             F                      C               Dm
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave.
  Em                 F                     C                  Dm                 D
I swear by the mud below my feet you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.

CHORUS
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CHORUS
(FADE OUT)