Review

October, 19th 2017

Joan Baez did this folk and Americana-styled song. In it, she tells of how her life had been before soldiers from cavalry came and chopped their world into pieces. Supposedly, she performed this song in the acute phase of the anti-war mood of the American nation, and it sounds pretty inspirational even after so many years. She tells how did soldiers took a person who was close to her, named Dixie, as she couldn’t expect they would take the most precious thing to her. Her brother was of only 18 years old. Now he is lying in the grave because he had enough courage to stand up against the war order. Reference: Read more about Joan Baez cover of this song

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down lyrics - Joan Baez

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Song Lyrics

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train

'Til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again

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

I took the train to Richmond that fell

It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na..."

Back with my wife in Tennessee

And one day she said to me,

"Virgil, quick! Come see!

There goes Robert E. Lee."

Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood

And I don't care if the money's no good

Just take what you need and leave the rest

But they should never have taken the very best

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na..."

Like my father before me, I'm a working man

And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand

Oh, he was just eighteen, proud and brave

But a yankee laid him in his grave

I swear by the blood below my feet

You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin'

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin'

They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na..."

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