The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

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        [[C] {sustain for 2 beats}, [D], [E], [F], [G]]

  Verse 1

        [Am]  Virgil [C/G]Caine is the name and I s[F]erved on the[F/E] Danville[Dm] train

        [Am] 'Til Stoneman's C[C/G]avalry came and [F]tore up the [F/E]tracks a-[Dm]gain

        [Am/E] In the Winter of '[F]65, we were [C]hungry, [Dm]just barely alive

        [Am/E] By May the tenth [F]Richmond had fell, it's a [C]time I re-[Dm]member, oh, so [D]well

  Chorus

        The [C/G]night they[Fmaj7] drove Old Dixie[C/G] down and the[Fmaj7] bells were ringing

        The [C/G]night they[Fmaj7] drove Old Dix[C/G]ie down and a[Fmaj7]ll the people were singing

        They went, [C/G]"La, la, la, [Am]la, la, la, la, [Gsus4]la, la, la, la, la, [F]la, la, la, la"

  Lead-in to verse 2

        [[C], [E], [G], [C] {sustain for six beats}, [D], [E], [F], [G]]

  Verse 2

        [Am] Back with my wife in T[C]ennessee when [F]one day she[F/E] called to [Dm]me

        [Am] "Virgil quick come [C]see, [F]there goes the [F/E]Robert E. [Dm]Lee"

        [Am/E] Now, I don't mind [F]choppin' wood and I d[C]on't care if the m[Dm]oney's no good

        [Am/E] Ya' take what ya' need and ya' [F]leave the rest

         But they should [C]never have [Dm]taken the very [D]best

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{section: 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

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        [[C], [E], [G], [C]] [Bm], [Bb], [Am], [Ab](b5), [C]/G, [D/F#]

  (Repeat chorus)