The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords Joan Baez 1971 (The Band, R. Robinson) Capo I Am C 2x C Am Am C F Am Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train C Am F Am 'Til Stonewall's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again. F C Am F In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive. Am F C Am D I took the train to Richmond, it fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well, C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing, C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went C Am D F La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La Am C Am C 2x C Am Am C F Am Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me C Am F Am "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!" F Am C Am Now I don't mind' choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. F Am Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest, C Am D but they should never have taken the very best. C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing, C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went C Am D F La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La Am C Am C 2x C Am Am C F Am Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man C Am F Am Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand. F Am C Am He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave F Am I swear by the blood below my feet, C Am D you can't raise the cane back up when it's in the seed. C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing, C F C Am The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went C Am D F La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La Set8 http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/