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THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Robbie Robertson\r\n \r\nCAPO 1st FRET\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 1]\r\n \r\nAm<\/span>     C<\/span>                      F<\/span>                      Am<\/span>\r\nVirgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train\r\nC<\/span>               Am<\/span>               F<\/span>                    Am<\/span>\r\nTill Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain\r\nF<\/span>                C<\/span>                   Am<\/span>           F<\/span>\r\nIn the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive\r\n   Am<\/span>             F<\/span>\r\nBy May the tenth, Richmond had fell\r\n         C<\/span>         Am<\/span>            D<\/span>\r\nIt was a time I re-member all so well\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n    C<\/span>          F<\/span>               C<\/span>\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am<\/span>\r\nAnd all the bells were ringing\r\n    C<\/span>          F<\/span>               C<\/span>\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am<\/span>\r\nAnd all the people were singing. They went...\r\nC<\/span>        Am<\/span>        D<\/span>              F<\/span>\r\nNa na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 2]\r\n \r\nAm<\/span>                   C<\/span>              F<\/span>                     Am<\/span>\r\nBack with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me\r\nC<\/span>        Am<\/span>              F<\/span>                    Am<\/span>\r\n\"Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee\"\r\n     F<\/span>            C<\/span>                   Am<\/span>                F<\/span>\r\nNow, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good\r\n    Am<\/span>                         F<\/span>\r\nYou take what you need and you leave the rest\r\n                C          Am             D\r\nBut they should never have taken the very best\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n    C          F               C\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am\r\nAnd all the bells were ringing\r\n    C          F               C\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am\r\nAnd all the people were singing. They went...\r\nC        Am        D              F\r\nNa na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na\r\n \r\n \r\n[Verse 3]\r\n \r\nAm                C        F               Am\r\nLike my father be-fore me, I will work the land\r\nC           Am                F                Am\r\nAnd like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand\r\n       F              C\r\nHe was just eighteen, proud and brave\r\n      Am              F\r\nBut a Yankee laid him in his grave\r\n  Am                  F\r\nI swear by the mud be-low my feet\r\n          C                 Am                 D\r\nYou can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat\r\n \r\n \r\n{ CHORUS }\r\n \r\n    C          F               C\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am\r\nAnd all the bells were ringing\r\n    C          F               C\r\nThe night they drove old Dixie down\r\n            Am\r\nAnd all the people were singing. They went...\r\nC        Am        D              F\r\nNa na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na\r\n
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THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN – Robbie Robertson CAPO 1st FRET [Verse 1] Am C F Am Virgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train C Am F Am Till Stoneman’s cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain F C Am F In … CLICK TO VIEW SONGNight They 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513","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=29513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29514,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29513\/revisions\/29514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}