Virgil Caine is the name, and I worked on the Danville train   Till Sherman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again   In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive   By May the tenth, Richmond had fell   It was a time I remember oh so well      The night they drove Old Dixie down   And all the bells were ringing   The night they drove Old Dixie down   And all the people were singin'   They went Na, Na, Na, Na....      Back with my wife in Tennessee till one day she says to me   Virgil quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee   And I don't mind choppin' wood   And I don't care if the money's no good   You take what you can 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 ringing   The night they drove Old Dixie down   And all the people were singin'   They went Na, Na, Na, Na....      Like my father before me, I will work the land   Like my brother below me, I took a rebel stand   He was just eighteen, proud and brave   But a Yankee laid him in his grave   I swear by the mud beneath my feet   You can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat      The night they drove Old Dixie down   And all the bells were ringing   The night they drove Old Dixie down   And all the people were singin'   They went Na, Na, Na, Na....      (Repeat)