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	Current version of The Band Lyrics The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/band/the-night-they-drove-old-dix...) Current version of the lyrics						Version 2 of The Band Lyrics The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (http://www.mp3lyrics.org/b/band/the-night-they-drove-old-dix...) Version 2 of the lyrics
1	Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train						Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train,	1
2	'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and       tore up the tracks again						Till Stoneman's cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again	2
3	In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive						In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive	3
4	By May the tenth, the Richmond had fell						By May the tenth,      Richmond had fell - it's a time I remember oh so well	4
1	It's a time I remember, oh, so well							1
5							The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing	5
6	The night they drove old Dixie down						The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singing	6
7	And the bells were ringing						They went "La, la, la-la, la, La, la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la"	7
2	The night they drove old Dixie down							2
8	And the people were singin'						Back with my wife in Tennesee, when one day she called to me	8
9	They went, na la la la na na						"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee."	9
10	La la na na la la na na na						Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if my money's no good.	10
11							Take what you need and leave the rest,	11
12	Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me						But they should never have taken the very best."	12
3	Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee							3
4	Now I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good							4
5	Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest							5
6	But they should never have taken the very best							6
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8	The night they drove old Dixie down							8
9	And the bells were ringing							9
10	The night they drove old Dixie down							10
11	And all the people were singin'							11
12	They went, na la la la na na							12
13	La la na na la la na na la							13
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	Like my father before me, I will work the land						Like my father before me, I will work the land
13	And like my brother above me, who took my rebel stand						Like       my brother above me, Who took a rebel stand	13
14	He was just eighteen, proud and brave						He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave	14
14	But a Yankee laid him in his grave							14
	I swear by the mud below my feet						I swear by the mud below my feet
	You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat						You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
15	The night they drove old Dixie down						[Chorus]	15
15	And the bells were ringing							15
16	The night they drove old Dixie down							16
17	And all the people were singin'							17
18	They went, na la la na la na							18
19	Na na na na la la na na la							19
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21	The night they drove old Dixie down							21
22	And all the bells were ringing							22
23	The night they drove old Dixie down							23
24	And the people were singin'							24
25	They went, na la la na na na							25
26	Na na na na la la na na la							26

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