Guitar chords with lyrics
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords Joan Baez (The Band, R. Robinson)E minorEm
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E minorEm Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
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E minorEm 'Til Stonewall's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
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G+G In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
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A augmentedA By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
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C majorC La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
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E minorEm Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
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E minorEm "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
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E minorEm Now I don't mind' em choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
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E minorEm Ya take what ya need, and ya leave the rest,
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A augmentedA but they should never have taken the very best.
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
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C majorC La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
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E minorEm Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
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E minorEm Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
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E minorEm He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
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E minorEm I swear by the mud below my feet,
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D MajorD you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
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E minorEm The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
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C majorC La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La Set8
ⓘ Guitar chords for 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down' by Joan Baez, a female folk artist from New York City, USA. Joan Baez was born in 1941. Joan Baez is known for her good natured folk music.