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The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Hm D G Hm Virgil Caine is my name, and i served on the Dannville train Till Stonewalls Cavalry came and tore up the tracks again G D Hm G In the winter of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive Hm G D Hm E By May 10th Richmond had fall – it was a time that i remember well D Hm G D Hm The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin' → D-Hm-E-G lalalalaalalalaa-part [ Tab from: http://www.guitaretab.com/t/the-band/301377.html ] Back with my wife in Tennesse, when one day she called me Virgil! Quick! Come an' see – there goes Robert E. Lee Now i don't mind i'm chopping wood, and the money's no good you take what you need and you leave the rest, but they've taken the very best D Hm G D Hm The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin' → D-Hm-E-G Like my father before me, i work on the land and like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the mud down below my feet, you can't raise the cane back up when its in the feed D Hm G D Hm The night they drove old dixie down, and the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin' → D-Hm-E-G  |