
		The night they drove old Dixie down

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		Virgil Cain is my name and I drove on the Danville train
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		Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
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		In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
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		I drove a train to Richmond, Nefelle. It was a time I remember very well

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		The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringin'
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		The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin', (they went)
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		"Naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa na-na-naa"

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

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		Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
		Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand
		He was eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
		I swear by the blood beneath my feet, you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat.

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