The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords by 
Skeeter Davis 
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Virgil Kane is my name
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and I served on the Danville train
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Till Stone Mine's cav alry
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came and tore up the tracks again
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In the winter of six ty -five
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we were hungry, just barely alive
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I took the train to Rich mond,
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that bell, it was a time
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I remember oh so well
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The night they drove old Dixie down,
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and all 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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And they went la, la, la, la, la, la,
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la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la
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Back with my wife in Tennessee
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And one day she said to me
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Virgil, quick come see
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There goes Robert E. Lee
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Now I don't mind a chop of wood
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And I don't care if the money's no good
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Just take what you need and leave the rest
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But they should never have
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taken the very be st
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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And all the bells were ringing
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And the night they drove old Dixie down
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And all the people were singing, they went
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La la la la la la
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La la la la la la la la
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Like my father before me
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I will work the land
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And like my brother before me,
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I took a rebel's stance
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For he was just eighteen,
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proud and brave
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When a Yankee laid him in his grave
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I swear by the blood below my feet
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You 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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And all 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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they went la la la la la la,
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la la la la la la la
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The night they drove old Dixie down,
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and all the bells were ringing
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the night, they drove old Dixie down,
and all the people were singing
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the night, they drove old Dixie down,
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and all the bells were ringing out ,
they told the whole Dixie town.
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