The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


Robbie Robertson


The Band

The Band (1970)

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
On May the 10th heard that to Richmond had fell
It's a 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...'

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
'Virgil, quick, come see, there go the Robert E.Lee'
Now I don't mind I'm choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good
Ya take what ya need and ya 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...'

Like my father before me, I'm will work the land
And like my brother before 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 blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat

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'

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'

la puedes escuchar en los siguientes programas:
Electric Dirt - Levon Helm (2009)

En esta canción se citan los siguientes personajes o referencias:
Gral. Robert E. Lee
Gral. Georges Stoneman Jr.
Gral. Ulysses S. Grant
Gral. Jefferson Davis


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