The Band - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down


From the 1978 film 'The Last Waltz'Virgil Caine 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 tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, when all the bells were ringing,
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'. They went,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
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 and 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.
Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, when all the bells were ringing,
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'. They went,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
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 eighteen, 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 Caine back up when he's in defeat.

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, when all the bells were ringing,
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and all the people were singin'. They went,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na, Na, Na, Na, Na, Na,
Na, Na, Na,







Channel: Music
Uploaded: January 30, 2009 at 9:33 pm
Author: Tillbe

Length: 00:04:22
Rating: 4.9119806
Views: 630091

Tags: Robbie Robertson Rick Danko Levon Helm Richard Manuel Garth Hudson The Band The Last Waltz

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Video Comments:
pfunkmaster21 (March 21, 2010 at 3:13 pm)
@webscutest Levon Helm is from Arkansas but yes, the rest are Canadian
cwa92464 (March 21, 2010 at 12:28 pm)
Levon might be in a Canadian band, but he is from The South
retroguy02 (March 21, 2010 at 6:34 am)
@webscutest Proud to be Canadian and from Toronto (where the Band was from)
schaufflerbd (March 21, 2010 at 5:40 am)
you should have been here for the cival war.go canuck yourself!!!
Walksbythewaters (March 21, 2010 at 12:30 am)
I met them not long after this,,,I was a kid and had no I dea who they really were ,,till15 years later when I saw this video on cassette, (VHR)
buffspringfield (March 20, 2010 at 9:37 pm)
Far out tune.......
webscutest (March 20, 2010 at 8:57 pm)
LOL The Band is Canadian - not a US band nice try you youngsters
robgeorge87 (March 20, 2010 at 8:07 pm)
i love Robbie's face all the way through this film
skyway42 (March 20, 2010 at 9:18 am)
funny how it takes a canadian to hit the nail on the head
mowque (March 20, 2010 at 3:07 am)
@busterbone The USA needs more Confederate trolls

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