The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords by Johnny Logan
Verse 1
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Virgil Cain is the name
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I served on the Danville train
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Till Stonewall's cavalry came
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And tore up the tracks again
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In the winter of 65
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We were hungry, just barely alive
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By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
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It's a time I remember
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Oh, so well
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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And the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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An d the people were singing,
they went
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Na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Back with my wife in Tennessee,
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one day she called to me
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Virgil, quick come see,
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there goes the Robert E. Lee
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I don't mind
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them chopping wood,
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and I don't care if the money's no good
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You take what you need,
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and you leave the rest
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But they should never have
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taken the very best
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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And the bells were ringing
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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And all the people were singing
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Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
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Na, na, na, na, na, na, na
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Like my father before me
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I'm a -workin' there
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Like my brother above me
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I took a rebel's stand
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Just 18, proud and brave
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But a Yankee laid him in his grave
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I swear by the mud below my feet
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I can't raise a cane back up
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when he's in defeat
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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All the bells were ringing
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And all the people were
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singing they went
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na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na -na -na -na -na -na -na -na
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Na na na na na na na
Outro 1
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Johnny Logan
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