The Night They Drove Old Dixie DownThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

C D E F G Am C/G F F/E Dm Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train Am C/G F F/E Dm 'Til Stoneman's Cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain Am/E F C Dm In the Winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive Am/E F C Dm D By May the tenth Richmond had fell, it's a time I re-member, oh, so well C/G Fmaj7 C/G Fmaj7 The night they drove Old Dixie down and the bells were ringing C/G Fmaj7 C/G Fmaj7 The night they drove Old Dixie down and all the people were singing C/G Am Gsus4 F They went, "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la" Lead-in to verse 2 [C, E G C , D E F G] Am C F F/E Dm Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me Am C F F/E Dm "Virgil quick come see, there goes the Robert E Lee" Am/E F C Dm Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good Am/E F Ya' take what ya' need and ya' leave the rest C Dm D But they should never have taken the very best Repeat chorus Lead-in to verse 3 C E G C F C C E G C C E F G Verse 3; repeat verse 2 chord progression Like my father before me, I will work the land Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat (Repeat chorus) Lead-in to repeat chorus C E G C Bm Bb Am Ab(b5) C/G D/F#