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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

William Ruhlmann

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Intro [c {sustain for 2 beats}, d, e, f, g] Verse 1 Am C/G f F/E Dm Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train Am C/G f F/E Dm 'Til Stoneman's Cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain Am/E f c Dm In the Winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive Am/E f c Dm d By May the tenth Richmond had fell, it's a time I re-member, oh, so well Chorus C/G Fmaj7 C/G Fmaj7 The night they drove Old Dixie down and the bells were ringing C/G Fmaj7 C/G Fmaj7 The night they drove Old Dixie down and all the people were singing C/G Am Gsus4 f They went, "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la" Lead-in to verse 2 [c, e, g, c {sustain for six beats}, d, e, f, g] Verse 2 Am c f F/E Dm Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me Am c f F/E Dm "Virgil quick come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee" Am/E f c Dm Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good Am/E f Ya' take what ya' need and ya' leave the rest c Dm d But they should never have taken the very best Repeat chorus Lead-in to verse 3 [c, e, g, c] f, c, [c, e, g, c {sustain for 6 beats} c, e, f, g] Verse 3; repeat verse 2 chord progression Like my father before me, I will work the land 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 below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat (Repeat chorus) Lead-in to repeat chorus [c, e, g, c] Bm, Bb, Am, Ab(b5), c/G, D/F# (Repeat chorus)
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