Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train   Till Stonemans 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"      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   Follow the bouncing arm      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"      Like my father before me, I'm a working man   And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand   But he was just 18, proud and brave   But a yankee laid him in his grave   I swear by the blood below my feet   You can't raise a Caine 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"