CAPO 1st FRET A5 C5 F5 A5 Virgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train C5 A5 F5 A5 Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain F5 C5 A5 F5 In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive A5 F5 By May the tenth, Richmond had fell C5 A5 D5 It was a time I re-member all so well CHORUS C5 F5 C5 The night they drove old Dixie down A5 And all the bells were ringing C5 F5 C5 The night they drove old Dixie down A5 And all the people were singing. They went... C5 A5 D5 F5 Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na A5 C5 F5 A5 Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me C5 A5 F5 A5 "Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee" F5 C5 A5 F5 Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good A5 F5 You take what you need and you leave the rest C5 A5 D5 But they should never have taken the very best (REPEAT CHORUS) A5 C5 F5 A5 Like my father be-fore me, I will work the land C5 A5 F5 A5 And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand F5 C5 He was just eighteen, proud and brave A5 F5 But a Yankee laid him in his grave A5 F5 I swear by the mud be-low my feet C5 A5 D5 You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat (REPEAT CHORUS)