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