Johnny Cash - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: chords

Bm      D
Virgil Caine is my name
       G                      Bm
And I served on the Danville train
 D               Bm
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
     G                   Bm
And tore up the tracks again

G                 D
In the winter of '65
         Bm           G
We were hungry, just barely alive
Bm                G
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
        D       Bm             E
It's a time I remember, oh so well

Chorus:
     D          Bm        G     D
The night they drove old Dixie down
        Bm
And the bells were ringing
     D          Bm        G     D
The night they drove old Dixie down
        Bm
And the people were singing
             D              Bm
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na na
 E           G
Na, na, na, na, na, na na"

Back with my wife in Tennessee
When one day she called to me
Said "Virgil, quick, come see, Virgil,
There goes the Robert e. Lee!"

Now, I don't mind chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
You take what you need
And you leave the rest
But they never should
Have taken the very best

Chorus

Like my father before me
I will work the land
And like my brother above me
Who took a rebel stand

He was just 18, proud and brave
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up
When he's in defeat

Chorus - x2