Lyrics:

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,

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'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.

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In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.

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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,


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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went

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La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,


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Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,

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'Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!'

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Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.

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Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,

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But they should never have taken the very best. (Chorus)


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Like my father before me, I will work the land,

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Like my brother above me, who took a rebel s