Joan Baez – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Guitar chords and lyrics of The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by Joan Baez
Published 1971
Original key A#m or Bm
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Capo first or second fret
Am C
Am C
C Am
Am C F Am
Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train
C Am F Am
‘Til Stoneman’s cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
F C Am F
In the winter of ’65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
Am F C Am D D
I took the train to Richmond, it fell, it was a time I remember, oh so well,
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin’. They went
C Am D F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
Am C Am C
Am C Am C
C Am
Am C F Am
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
C Am F Am
“Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!”
F Am C Am
Now I don’t mind’ choppin’ wood, and I don’t care if the money’s no good.
. F Am
Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest,
. C Am D D
but they should never have taken the very best.
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin’. They went
C Am D F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
Am C Am C
Am C Am C
C Am
Am C F Am
Like my father before me, I’m a workin’ man
C Am F Am
Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
. F Am C Am
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
. F Am
I swear by the blood below my feet,
. C Am D D
you can’t raise the cane back up when it’s in the seed.
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,
. C F C Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin’. They went
C Am D F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La