Virgil Cane is

my name

And I drove on

the Banville train

Till so much

cavalry came

And tore up

the tracks again

In the winter of

sixty-five

We were hungry

Just barely alive

I took the train

to Richmond F.L.

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

Na na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na na na na...

Back with my wife

in Tennessee

And one day she

said to me

Virgil, quick come see

There goes

Robert E Lee

Now I don't mind 'em

chopping wood

And I don't care if the

money's no good

Just take what you need

and 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

Na na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na na na na...

Like my father

before me

I'm a working man

And like my brother

before me

I took a rebel stand

Well he was

just eighteen,

proud and brave

But a yankee laid

him in his grave

I swear by the blood

below my feet

You can't raise

the cane back up

When it's in the beet

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

Na na na na na na

Na na na na na

Na na na na...