The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords
Joan Baez (The Band, R. Robinson)

E minorEm   G+G            C majorC           E minorEm
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
G+G        E minorEm        C majorC          E minorEm
'Til Stonewall's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
C majorC         G+G      E minorEm      G+G
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
E minorEm        C majorC             G+G   E minorEm       A augmentedA
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing,
  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
G+G        E minorEm A minorAm     C majorC
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

E minorEm          G+G        C majorC          E minorEm
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me
G+G    E minorEm        C majorC          E minorEm
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
C majorC          E minorEm          G+G         E minorEm
Now I don't mind' em choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
  C majorC             E minorEm
Ya take what ya need, and ya leave the rest,
        G+G     E minorEm       A augmentedA
but they should never have taken the very best.

  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
G+G        E minorEm A minorAm     C majorC
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

E minorEm        G+G    C majorC       E minorEm
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
G+G        E minorEm   C majorC        E minorEm
Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
    C majorC       E minorEm           G+G        E minorEm
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
 C majorC         E minorEm
I swear by the mud below my feet,
     G+G         E minorEm        D MajorD
you can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.

  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing
  G+G     C majorC        G+G       E minorEm
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. They went
G+G        E minorEm A minorAm     C majorC
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La


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