The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords by Johnny Cash

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: A minorAm

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse:
A minorAm         C majorC
Virgil Caine is my name
   FF           A minorAm
And I served on the Danville train
 C majorC        A minorAm
'Till Stoneman's cavalry came
   FF          A minorAm
And tore up the tracks again

Verse:
FF         C majorC
In the winter of '65
 A minorAm       FF     A minorAm
We were hungry, just barely alive
FF        A minorAm
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell
    C majorC    A minorAm      D MajorD
It's a time I remember, oh so well

Chorus:
  C majorC      A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
     A minorAm
And the bells were ringing
   C majorC     A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
     A minorAm
And the people were singing
      C majorC        A minorAm
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na na
D MajorD      FF
Na, na, na, na, na, na na"

Verse:
A minorAm          C majorC
Back with my wife in Tennessee
     FF         A minorAm
When one day she called to me
FF       A minorAm
Said "Virgil, quick, come see, Virgil,
FF             A minorAm
There goes the Robert E. Lee!"

Verse:
FF         C majorC
Now, I don't mind chopping wood
  A minorAm          FF
And I don't care if the money's no good
  A minorAm
You take what you need
    FF
And you leave the rest
     C majorC
But they never should
   A minorAm       D MajorD
Have taken the very best

Chorus:
  C majorC      A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
     A minorAm
And the bells were ringing
   C majorC     A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
     A minorAm
And the people were singing
      C majorC        A minorAm
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na na
D MajorD      FF
Na, na, na, na, na, na na"

Verse:
A minorAm        C majorC
Like my father before me
FF        A minorAm
I will work the land
C majorC          A minorAm
And like my brother above me
FF        A minorAm
Who took a rebel stand
    FF    C majorC
He was just 18, proud and brave
   A minorAm       FF
But a Yankee laid him in his grave
 A minorAm         FF
I swear by the mud below my feet
  C majorC            A minorAm
You can't raise a Caine back up
        D MajorD
When he's in defeat


Chorus:
  C majorC      A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
    A minorAm
And the bells were ringing
  C majorC     A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
    A minorAm
And the people were singing
      C majorC        A minorAm
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na na
D MajorD      FF
Na, na, na, na, na, na na"


Chorus:
  C majorC     A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
    A minorAm
And the bells were ringing
  C majorC     A minorAm    FF   C majorC
The night they drove old Dixie down
    A minorAm
And the people were singing
      C majorC        A minorAm
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na na
D MajorD      FF
Na, na, na, na, na, na na"