The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Joan Baez
1971
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Titel A-kant
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Lengte A-kant
3:21
Componist(en) A-kant
J. Robbie Robertson
Titel B-kant
When Time Is Stolen
Lengte B-kant
2:57
Componist(en) B-kant
Joan Baez
Platenlabel
Vanguard
Catalogusnr
VRS 35138
Album
Blessed Are...
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Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train
Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went,
naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa
na-na-naa
Back with my wife in Tenessee
And one day she said to me,
Virgil, quick come see
There goes the Robert E. Lee
Now I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went,
naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa
na-na-naa
Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went,
naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa
na-na-naa
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