The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
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Virgil Caine is the name
And I served on the Danville Train
'till Stoneman's calvary came
And they 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 all the bells were ringing
The night they drove old dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went na.. na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na
Back with my wife in Tenessee
When one day she called to me
Said, "Virgil, quick come see"
"There goes the 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 never should 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 na na
na na na na na na na na na
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
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
And I swear by the mud 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 ringing
The night they drove old dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went na.. na na na na na
na na na na na na na na na
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 na na
na na na na na na na na na
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Dubbed "The Band" by their record company (a name believed to be derived from how they were referred to during their tenure with Dylan), the group left Saugerties, New York, to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s: their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single "The Weight") and 1969's The Band. They broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson.
Although the Band was always more popular with music journalists and fellow musicians than with the general public, they have remained an admired and influential group. The group was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them #50 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2008, they received the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
