Intro

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  Verse 1 

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        Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 

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       'Til Stoneman's Cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain 

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       In the Winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive 

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       By May the tenth Richmond had fell, it's a time I re-member, oh, so well  

  

  Chorus 

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      The night they drove Old Dixie down and the bells were ringing 

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      The night they drove Old Dixie down and all the people were singing 

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      They went, "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la" 

  

  

  Lead-in to verse 2
      
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  Verse 2 

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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, there goes the Robert E. Lee" 

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        Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good 

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       Ya' take what ya' need and ya' leave the rest 

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       But they should never have taken the very best 

  

  Repeat chorus 

  

  

  Lead-in to verse 3 

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  Verse 3; repeat verse 2 chord progression 

      Like my father before me, I will work the land 

      Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand 

      He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave 

      I swear by the mud below my feet 

      You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat 

  

  (Repeat chorus) 

  

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  (Repeat chorus)