The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords

THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN - Robbie Robertson

CAPO 1st FRET


Am     C/G                    F                      AmVirgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train
C/G             Am               F                    AmTill Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
F                C                   Am           FIn the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
   Am             FBy May the tenth, Richmond had fell
         C         Am            DIt was a time I re-member all so well


CHORUS
    C/G        F               C/GThe night they drove old Dixie down
            AmAnd all the bells were ringing
    C/G        F               C/GThe night they drove old Dixie down
            AmAnd all the people were singing. They went...
C/G      Am        D              FNa na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na


Am                   C/G            F                     AmBack with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
C/G      Am              F                    Am"Virgil, quick come see! There goes Robert E. Lee"
     F            C                   Am                FNow, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good
    Am                         FYou take what you need and you leave the rest
                C          Am             DBut they should never have taken the very best

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Am                C/G      F               AmLike my father be-fore me, I will work the land
C/G         Am                F                AmAnd like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
       F              CHe was just eighteen, proud and brave
      Am              FBut a Yankee laid him in his grave
  Am                  FI swear by the mud be-low my feet
          C                 Am                 DYou can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat

(REPEAT CHORUS)