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Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
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'Til 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 tenth, Richmond had fell. It was a time I remember oh, so well.
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singing,
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They went La, La, La, La, La, La,
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La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
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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, there goes the 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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You take what you need and leave the rest,
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But they should never have taken the very best.
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Like my father before me, I will work the land,
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Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
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He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
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But a Yankee laid him in his grave,
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I swear by 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