The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The night they drove old Dixie down
I swear by the mud below my feet
But they should never have taken the very best
They went, "La, la, la"
They went, "Na, na, na"
And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand

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

The night they drove old Dixie down
And the bells were ringing
And all the people were singing
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
They went, "La, la, la"
It's a time I remember, oh so well
And the people were singing
And the people were singing
And all the bells were ringing
Like my father before me, I will work the land

Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good
And all the people were singing
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave

And the bells were ringing
And the bells were ringing
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
The night they drove old Dixie down
The night they drove old Dixie down
The night they drove old Dixie down
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest
The night they drove old Dixie down

The night they drove old Dixie down

The night they drove old Dixie down
"Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee"