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

INTRO: [*R1]

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

CHORUS:
The [C] night they [F] drove old Dixie [C] down
and the [F] bells were ringing
[C] The night they [F] drove old Dixie [C] down
and the [F] people were singing
They went [C] "La la la [Am] la la
[Gsus4] la, la la la la la [F] la la la" [*R2]

BREAK: [*R3]

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

BREAK: ^[C open] ^[F open] [*R2] // [*R3]

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]