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Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and it tore up the tracks againIn the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely aliveBy May tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so wellThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the bells were ringingThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'They wentBack with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me"Say Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if my money's no goodYa take what ya need and ya leave the restBut they should never have taken the very bestThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the bells were ringingThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'They wentLike my father before me, I will work the landAnd like my brother up above me, who took a rebel standHe was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his graveI swear by the mud below my feet, you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeatThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, when all the bells were ringingThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and you could hear 'm all singin'They went From Letras Mania