THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Robbie Robertson


VERSE 1
Am     C/G                    F                      Dm
Virgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train
Am             C/G               F                    Dm
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
Am                F                   C           Dm
In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
   Am             F
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
         C         Dm            D
It was a time I re-member all so well

CHORUS
    C/G        Fmaj7              C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Fmaj7
And all the bells were ringing
    C/G        Fmay7             C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singing. They went...
C/G      Am        Gsus7              F
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na

VERSE 2
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Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
Am       C/G              F                    Dm
"Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee"
     Am            F                   C                Dm
Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good
    Am                         F
You take what you need and you leave the rest
                C          Dm             D
But they should never have taken the very best

CHORUS
    C/G        Fmaj7              C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Fmaj7
And all the bells were ringing
    C/G        Fmay7             C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singing. They went...
C/G      Am        Gsus7              F
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na


VERSE 3
Am                C/G      F               Dm
Like my father be-fore me, I will work the land
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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
       Am              F
He was just eighteen, proud and brave
      C               Dm
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
  Am                  F
I swear by the mud be-low my feet
          C                 Dm                 D
You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat

CHORUS
    C/G        Fmaj7              C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Fmaj7
And all the bells were ringing
    C/G        Fmay7             C/G
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Am
And all the people were singing. They went...
C/G      Am        Gsus7              F
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na