And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
The night they drove old Dixie down
But they should never have taken the very best
And all the people were singing
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
Like my father before me, I will work the land
The night they drove old Dixie down
They went, "La, la, la"
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
And the people were singing
And all the bells were ringing
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
They went, "La, la, la"
They went, "Na, na, na"
It's a time I remember, oh so well
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest
Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good
And the bells were ringing
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
And the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
"Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee"
I swear by the mud below my feet
The night they drove old Dixie down
The night they drove old Dixie down
And the people were singing
The night they drove old Dixie down
