The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - chords, tab and comments


Famous track from famous 1969 album "The Band" - and B-side on single "Up on Cripple Creek" same year. Remarkable covers: Joan Baez (1971) and Johnny Cash (1975).
C#m     E                       A                      C#m
Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train
E                C#m               A                   C#m
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
A                E                   C#m           A
In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
   C#m             E
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
         C#m        A            F#
It was a time I re-member all so well

    E            A               E
The night they drove old Dixie down
            C#m         A
And all the bells were ringing
    E            A              E
The night they drove old Dixie down
            C#m          A
And all the people were singing. They went...
E        C#m          F#             A
Na na na na na na  na na na na na na na na na
C sharp minor
C#m
E major
E
A major
A
F sharp major
F#
Robbie Robertson