| Virgil Caine is my name and I drove 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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| I took the train to Richmond and fell, it was 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 singin', 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, and one day she said to me
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| «Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!»
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| Now I don’t mind choppin' wood, and I don’t care if the money’s no good
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| Just 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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| 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 singin', 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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| Like my father before me, I’m a working man
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| And like my brother before me, I took a rebel’s stand
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| But 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 blood below my feet
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| You can’t raise a caine back up when he’s in defeat
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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 singin', they went
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| «Na, na na na na na, na na, na na, na na, na na na» |