CAPO 1st FRET


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Virgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train
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Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
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In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
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It was a time I re-member all so well


CHORUS
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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! There goes 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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You take what you need and you leave the rest
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But they should never have taken the very best

(REPEAT CHORUS)

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Like my father be-fore me, I will work the land
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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
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He was just eighteen, proud and brave
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But a Yankee laid him in his grave
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I swear by the mud be-low my feet
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You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat

(REPEAT CHORUS)