The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Remastered 2000) Chords

_ _ _ [G] _ [Am] _ _ Virgil [C] Kane is the name and [F] I served [E] on the [Dm] Danville train
_ [Am] Till _ _ [C] Stoneman's cavalry [F] came and tore up the [Dm] tracks again
_ _ [E] In the winter [F] of 65 [C] we were hungry, [Dm] just barely alive
_ [E] By [Am] May the [F] 10th, Richmond had fell
It's a [C] time [Dm] I remember oh [D] so well
_ _ [C] One _ night [F] they drove old Dixie [C]
down
And the [F] bells were ringing
[C] One night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down
And [F] the people were singing, [C] they went
La _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G]
la la la [F] la la la la la
[C] _
Back _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
with my [C] wife in Tennessee
[F] When one day she called [Dm] to me
_ [Am] _
_ _ [C] Virgil quick come see
[F]
There [E] goes the property [Dm] lease
_ _ [E]
[Am] I don't mind [F] chopping wood
[C] And I don't care [Dm] if the money's no [Am] good
You take what you need and [F] you leave the rest
But [C] they should never [Dm] have taken the very [D] _
_ best
[C] One night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down
And [F] the bells were ringing
[C] One night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down
And all [F] the people were singing, [C] they went
La la _
[Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ la [F] _
la la la la [C] la la _ _ _ _
[F] _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
[G] _ _ [Am] Like my father [C] before me
_ [F] I was [Em] a working [Dm] man _
And [Am] _ like my brother [C] before me
[F] Who [Em] took a treble [Dm] stand
He [E] was just 18, _ [F] proud and brave
[C] But a Yankee _ [Dm] played him in his grave
[Am] I swear by the blood [F] below my feet
You [C] can't raise a cane [Dm] back up when it's in the [D] _ _ grave
[C] One night [F] they drove old Dixie [C]
down
And [F] the bells were [C] ringing
One _ night [F] they drove old Dixie [C]
down
And [F] all the people were [C] singing, they went
La la [Am] la la la la la [G] la la
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Bm] _ _ [Bb] _ _ [F] _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ One night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down
And [F] all the bells were [C] ringing
One night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down
[F] And the people were singing, [C] they went
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _