Virgil Caine is my 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 I took the train to Richmond that fell It was a time I remember, oh, so well The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringin The night they drove old Dixie down And all the were people singin' They went, naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa na-na-naa
Back with my wife in Tenessee And one day she said to me
Virgil, quick come see There goes the Robert E. Lee
Now I don't mind 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
my Like father before me, I'm a working man And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave But a yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood below my feet You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
[00:09.76]Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train [00:16.70]Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again [00:24.23]In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive [00:31.47]I took the train to Richmond that fell [00:34.41]It was a time I remember, oh, so well [00:41.98]The night they drove old Dixie down [00:47.57]And all the bells were ringin [00:50.07]The night they drove old Dixie down [00:55.00]And all the were people singin' [00:56.74]They went, naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa [01:03.13]na-na-naa [01:06.34] [01:14.21]Back with my wife in Tenessee [01:17.81]And one day she said to me [01:20.78] [01:22.53]Virgil, quick come see [01:25.21]There goes the Robert E. Lee [01:28.37] [01:28.99]Now I don't mind chopping wood [01:32.58]And I don't care if the money's no good [01:36.35]Just take what you need and leave the rest [01:39.62]But they should never have taken the very best [01:46.39] [02:19.85]my Like father before me, I'm a working man [02:26.84]And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand [02:33.21]Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave [02:37.10]But a yankee laid him in his grave [02:40.89]I swear by the blood below my feet [02:44.07]You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
