Johnny Cash — The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

[Verse 1] Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville Train Until Stonemason cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well [Chorus] The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singing they went La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la [Verse 2] Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me Virgil, quick, come see, there goes 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 should never have taken the very best [Chorus] [Verse 3] 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