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

INTRO: [*R1]

VERSE 1:
[F#m] Virgil [A] Cain is my name
and I [D] served on the [D/C#] Danville [Bm] train
[F#m] Till Stonewalls [A] cavalry came
and [D] tore up the [D/C#] tracks [Bm] again
[F#m] In the winter of [D] sixty-five
we were [A] hungry, just [D] barely alive
[F#m] By May the tenth [D] Richmond had fell
It's a [A] time I re-[Bm]-member all so [B 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 [F#m] la la
[Esus4] la, la la la la la [D] la la la" [*R2]

BREAK: [*R3]

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

REPEAT CHORUS:

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

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

REPEAT CHORUS: [x2]