Текст песни The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Live) - The Band

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Virgil Kane is the name and I served on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65 we were hungry, just barely alive
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Sha-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na"

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
Said, "Virgil, quick, come see, for there goes Robert E. Lee"
I don't mind chopping wood, and I don't care if my money's no good
You take what you need and you leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Sha-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na"

Like my father before me I will work the land
And like my brother above me who took a rebel stand
He was just 18, proud and brave but a Yankee laid him in his grave
And I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a Kane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Sha-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na"

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Sha-na-na-na, na-na-na-na-na-na"