{"id":24589,"date":"2025-06-27T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=24589"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:30:21","slug":"night-drove-old-dixie-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/night-drove-old-dixie-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Drove Old Dixie Down"},"content":{"rendered":"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n          The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down \u2013 The Band\r\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n\r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\nDm<\/span>       F\/C<\/span>                      A#<\/span>            F\/A<\/span>      Gm<\/span>\r\n  Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train\r\nDm<\/span>               F\/C<\/span>              A#<\/span>          F\/A<\/span>     Gm<\/span>\r\n 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again\r\nDm\/A<\/span>               A#<\/span>          F\/C<\/span>          Gm<\/span>\r\n In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive\r\nDm\/A<\/span>               A#<\/span>                        F\/C<\/span>      Gm<\/span>            G\/B<\/span>\r\n By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 1]\r\n    F\/C<\/span>        A#maj7<\/span>          F\/C<\/span>           A#maj7<\/span>\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing\r\n    F\/C<\/span>        A#maj7<\/span>          F\/C<\/span>           A#maj7<\/span>\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the people were singin' \r\n          F\/C             Dm            Csus4           A#              |    F   |  %  |\r\nThey went:  Naah, na, na, naah, na, na  Na, na, na, na, naah, na, na, na, na    [Link 2)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\nDm                     F\/C             A#          F\/A       Gm\r\n  Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me\r\nDm         F\/C              A#             F\/A       Gm\r\n  \"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee!\"\r\nDm\/A               A#                   F\/C               Gm\r\n  Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good\r\n   Dm\/A                     A#\r\nYa take what ya need and ya leave the rest\r\n                F\/C        Gm             G\/B\r\nBut they should never have taken the very best\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 2]\r\n    F\/C          A#maj7        F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing\r\n    F\/C        A#maj7          F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the people were singin'\r\n           F\/C            Dm\r\nThey went:  Naah, na, na, naah, na, na  \r\n                                               2\/4\r\nCsus4               A#               |   F  F | A# |  F  |  N.C.  |\r\nNa, na, na, na, na, naah, na, na, na       (Link 3)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\nDm                 F\/C      A#     F\/A      Gm\r\n  Like my father before me, I will work the land\r\nDm                 F\/C      A#         F\/A   Gm\r\n  Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand\r\n       Dm\/A           A#                     F               Gm\r\nHe was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave\r\nDm\/A                   A#\r\n  I swear by the mud below my feet\r\n          F                  Gm                G\/B\r\nYou can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 3]\r\n    F\/C        A#maj7          F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing\r\n    F\/C        A#maj7          F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the people were singin'  \r\n           F\/C            Dm\r\nThey went:  Naah, na, na, naah, na, na  \r\nCsus4           A#                |  F    | C\/E Eb | A#\/D Gdim\/Db | F\/C G\/B |\r\nNa, na, na, na, naah, na, na, na        (Link 4)\r\n \r\n \r\n[Chorus 4] (fade out)\r\n    F\/C        A#maj7          F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,\r\n    F\/C        A#maj7          F\/C           A#maj7\r\nThe night they drove Old Dixie down, and the people were singin'.  \r\n          F\/C             Dm            Csus4           A#              |    F   |  %  |\r\nThey went:  Naah, na, na, naah, na, na  Na, na, na, na, naah, na, na, na    [Link 2)<\/pre>\n
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————————————————————————— The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down \u2013 The Band ————————————————————————— [Verse 1] Dm F\/C A# F\/A Gm Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train Dm F\/C A# F\/A Gm ‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks again Dm\/A A# F\/C Gm … CLICK TO VIEW SONGNight Drove Old Dixie Down<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133,126,13,173,116,117,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-x-bill-chase","category-joan-baez","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-hold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27659,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24589\/revisions\/27659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}