Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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[verse]
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Virgil Caine is my name,
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and I drove on the Danville train
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'Til Stoneman's cavalry came,
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and tore up the tracks again.
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In the winter of '65, we were hungry,
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just barely alive.
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I took the train to Richmond, it fell,
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it was a time I remember, oh so well,

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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 singin'. They went
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  La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,
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 La, La, La

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Back with my wife in Tennessee,
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when one day she said to me
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"Virgil, quick, come see,
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there goes Robert E. Lee!"
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Now I don't mind' choppin' wood,
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and I don't care if the money's no good.
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Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest,
but they should
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never have taken the very best.

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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 singin'. They went
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  La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,
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 La, La, La

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Like my father before me,
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  I'm a workin' man
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Like my brother before me,
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  I 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 blood below my feet,
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you can't raise the cane back
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up when it's in the seed.

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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 singin'. They went
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  La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,
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 La, La, La