Joan Baez – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (Guitar)

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Joan Baez 1971 (The Band, R. Robinson) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Drove_Old_Dixie_Down Capo I * Am C 2x C Am
Am     C                       F                     Am
Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train

C                Am                F                   Am
 'Til Stoneman's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.

F                  C           Am           F
 In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.

Am                   F                           C        Am            D
 I took the train to Richmond, it fell, it was a time I remember, oh so well,

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin'. They went 

C                Am  D           F
 La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 
Am C Am C 2x C Am
Am                   C               F                   Am
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she said to me

C         Am               F                    Am
 "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"

F                  Am                   C                 Am
 Now I don't mind' choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.

   F                      Am
Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest,

                C          Am             D
but they should never have taken the very best.

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin'. They went 

C                Am  D           F
 La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 
Am C Am C 2x C Am
Am               C       F              Am
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man

C                  Am      F               Am
 Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.

       F              Am                     C               Am
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave

  F                    Am
I swear by the blood below my feet,

          C                   Am                  D
you can't raise the cane back up when it's in the seed.

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing,

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin'. They went 

C                Am  D           F
 La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La 
* Alternates: Capo IV Am = F#m C = A F = D D = B Open (These chords are not in the original key) Am = Em C = G F = C D = A Set8