Virgil Cain
is my name
And I drove on a brand new train
Till so much cavalry came
And tore up the tracks again
In the winter of sixty -five
We were hungry, just barely alive
I took a train to
Richmond
That fell, it was the time I
remember oh so well
The night they drove old
Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old
Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na -na -na -na -na -na -na
Na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na
That was my wife in
Tennessee, one day she said to me
Virgil, quick go see,
there goes the robbery league
Now I don't mind them 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 ringing
The night they drove old
Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na -na -na -na -na -na -na
Na -na -na -na -na -na -na
-na -na
Like my father before me, well,
I'm a workin' man
Like my brother before me,
I took a rebel stand
Well, he was just eighteen,
proud and brave
But a
Yan kee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise the cane back
up when it's in the field
The night they drove old
Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old
Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went na -na -na -na -na -na -na
Na -na -na -na -na -na -na
-na -na
And all the bells were ringing
the night they drove old
Dixie down, and all the people were
singing the night they drove old
Dixie down, and all the bells were
ringing the night they
They drove old
Dixie down
And all the people were singing that night
They drove old
Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing