The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - chords, tab and comments
At the bottom you'll find a link to the complete lyrics.
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).
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Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train
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Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
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In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
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It was a time I re-member all 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 singing. They went...
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