Band, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (1969)
^{Key: :[Gm] (w: Robbie Robertson)}

INTRO: [*R1]

VERSE 1:
[Gm] Virgil [A#] Cain is my name
and I [D#] served on the [D#/D] Danville [Cm] train
[Gm] Till Stonewalls [A#] cavalry came
and [D#] tore up the [D#/D] tracks [Cm] again
[Gm] In the winter of [D#] sixty-five
we were [A#] hungry, just [D#] barely alive
[Gm] By May the tenth [D#] Richmond had fell
It's a [A#] time I re-[Cm]-member all so [C open] well

CHORUS:
The [A#] night they [D#] drove old Dixie [A#] down
and the [D#] bells were ringing
[A#] The night they [D#] drove old Dixie [A#] down
and the [D#] people were singing
They went [A#] "La la la [Gm] la la
[Fsus4] la, la la la la la [D#] la la la" [*R2]

BREAK: [*R3]

VERSE 2:
[Gm] Back with my wife in [A#] Tennessee
When [D#] one day she [D#/D] called to [Cm] me
[Gm] "Virgil, [A#] quick come see [D#] there
goes the [D#/D] Robert E. [Cm] Lee"
Now [Gm] I don't mind I'm [D#] chopping wood
And I [A#] don't care if the [D#] money's no good
You [Gm] take what you need and you [D#] leave the rest
But they should [A#] never have [Cm] taken the very [C] best

REPEAT CHORUS:

BREAK: ^[A# open] ^[D# open] [*R2] // [*R3]

VERSE 3:
[Gm] Like my father [A#] before me
[D#] I [D#/D] work the [Cm] land
[Gm] And like my brother [A#] above me
[D#] who took a [D#/D] rebel [Cm] stand
He was [Gm] just eighteen, [D#] proud and brave
But a [A#] Yankee laid him [D#] in his grave
I [Gm] swear my the mud be-[D#]-low my feet
You can't [A#] raise a Cain back [Cm] up when he's in de-[C]-feat

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]