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

INTRO: [*R1]

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

CHORUS:
The [B] night they [E] drove old Dixie [B] down
and the [E] bells were ringing
[B] The night they [E] drove old Dixie [B] down
and the [E] people were singing
They went [B] "La la la [G#m] la la
[F#sus4] la, la la la la la [E] la la la" [*R2]

BREAK: [*R3]

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

BREAK: ^[B open] ^[E open] [*R2] // [*R3]

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]