F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
Virgil Cain is the name and I served on the Danville train
F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks a-gain
A/E                D                   A           Bm
In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
   A/E             D
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell
         A         Bm            Bmaj7
It was a time I re-member all so well


[Chorus]

    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing
    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing. They went...
A/E      F#m        E              D
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na


[Verse]

F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
"Virgil, quick come see! There    goes       Robert E. Lee"
     A/E                D                   A           Bm
Now, I don't mind choppin' wood and I don't care if the money's no good
    A/E                         D
You take what you need and you leave the rest
          A          Bm             Bmaj7
But they should never have taken the very best


[Chorus]

    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing
    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing. They went...
A/E      F#m        E              D
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na


[Verse]

F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
Like my father be-fore me, I will work the land
F#m     A/E                    D                F#m    Bm
And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand
       A/E                D                   A           Bm
He was just eighteen, proud and brave but a Yankee laid him in his grave
  A/E                  D
I swear by the mud be-low my feet
          A                 Bm                 Bmaj7
You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in de-feat


[Chorus]

    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringing
    A/E        D               A/E
The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singing. They went...
A/E      F#m        E              D
Na na na na na na, na na na na na na na na na