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Virgil Cain is my name, and I served on the Danville train
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Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
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In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
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By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
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And it's a time I remember, oh, so well.
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down
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And all the bells were ringing,
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The Night, They Drove Old Dixie Down
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And all the people were singing, they went
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Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na.
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Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
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'Virgil, quick come see! Virgi,l there goes Robert E. Lee.'
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Now I don't mind choppin' wood
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And I don't care if the money's no good.
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Just take what you need and you leave the rest
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But they never should have taken the very best.
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Like my father before me, I will work the land
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And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand.
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He was just 18, proud and brave
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But a Yankee laid him in his grave.
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I swear my the mud below my feet
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You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.
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Written by Robbie Robertson 1976