Virgil Cane is my name and I served on the Denville train

Till Stoneman's calvary came and tore up the tracks again

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

I made 10th to Richmond that fell it was the time that 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 singing

They went la la la la la

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Back with my wife in Tennessee well one day she called to me

Virgil quick come see that there goes Robert E Lee

Now I don't mind choppin' woods and I don't care if the money's no good

Yopu take what you need and leave the rest

But they sould never have taken the very best

The night they drove...

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Like my father before me I'm a working man

And like my brother that'll love me he took the rebel stand

But he was just eighteen proud and brave and a yankee laid him in his grave

The night they drove...