[Verse]
Virgil Caine is the name, I served on the Danville train,
Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again,
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, and just barely alive,
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell ,
And it's a time I remember, oh so well.

[Chorus]
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la, la, la...."

[Verse]
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee"
Now I don't mind chopping wood, I don't care if the money's no good,
You take what you need and you leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.

[Chorus]
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la, la, la...."

[Verse]
Like my father before me, well I will work the land,
And like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand,
He was just eighteen, he was proud and brave,
But a Yankee laid him in his grave, I swear by the mud below my feet,
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.

[Chorus]
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la, la, la...."

[Chorus]
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down,
And the people were singing
They went, "La, la, la, la, la....".