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The Night They Drove Old Dixie
Down
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train, 'Til Stoneman'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's a time I remember, oh so well, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me, "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!" Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, But they should never have taken the very best. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. Like my father before me, I will work the land, Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand. He was just eighteen, 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.
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"As you
might have heard, we got a couple of friends joining in with us
tonight," mutters Robbie Robertson dryly. Recorded at San
Francisco's Winterland on Thanksgiving Day 1976, the Band's swan
song is a rousing celebration, not a bittersweet eulogy. The friends in
question: Ronnie
Hawkins, Neil
Young, Joni
Mitchell, Neil
Diamond, Dr.
John, Paul
Butterfield, Muddy
Waters, Pinetop
Perkins, Eric
Clapton, Van
Morrison, Bob
Dylan, Ron
Wood, Ringo
Starr. Add studio sequences featuring the
Staples and Emmylou
Harris, and you have a pretty formidable supporting cast for the
Band, who always did quite well on their own. All involved have done
better work elsewhere, but that's far beside the point, which is that
anyone who wasn't there should be very, very jealous. --Marc
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