The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords by Joan Baez

Guitar 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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