Joan Baez – The Night They Drove chords

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords
Joan Baez (The Band,  R. Robinson)

Em     G                        C                      EmVirgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
G                Em                C                   Em'Til Stonewall's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
C                 G           Em           GIn the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
Em                C                         G      Em              ABy May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went 
G               Em  Am          CLa, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 

Em                   G               C                   EmBack with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
G        Em               C                    Em"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
C                    Em                   G                 EmNow I don't mind' em choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
   C                         EmYa take what ya need, and ya leave the rest,
                G          Em             Abut they should never have taken the very best.

    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went 
G               Em  Am         CLa, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 

Em               G       C              EmLike my father before me, I'm a workin' man
G                Em      C               EmLike my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
       C              Em                     G               EmHe was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
  C                  EmI swear by the mud below my feet,
          G                  Em                Dyou can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.

    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
    G          C               G             EmThe night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went 
G               Em  Am         CLa, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 


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