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141b - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band cover - Vocals - Acoustic guitar & chords

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Channel: George Possley · 2018 · Music

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
The Band
Key: Em


Verse 1
Em       G/D                     C            Em         Am
Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train
Em              G/D               C           Em      Am
Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
Em                 C                 G/D          Am
In the winter of sixty-five we were hungry, just barely alive
Em                 C                       G/D      Am            A
By May the tenth Richmond had fell it's a time I remember oh so well

Chorus
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D         Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D             Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singing
G/D          C         A              C
They went sha na na na na nah na na nana na na na na


Verse 2
Em                   G/D            C           Em        Am
Back with my wife in Tennessee when one day she called to me
Em              G/D             C        Em         Am
Said, Virgil, quick come see there goes Robert E. Lee
Em              C                  G/D               Am
Now I don't mind chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good
Em                         C
You take what you need and you leave the rest
G/D        Am              A
But they should never have taken the very best

Chorus
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D         Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D             Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singing
G/D          C         A              C
They went sha na na na na nah na na nana na na na na na


Verse 3
Em                G/D     C       Em       Am
Like my father before me I will work the land
Em                    G/D    C           Em      Am
And like my brother above me who took a rebel stand
Em        C                    G/D             Am
He was just 18, proud and brave when a Yankee laid him in his grave
Em                C
I swear by the mud below my feet
G/D               Am                 A
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat

Chorus
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D         Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D             Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singing
G/D          C         A              C
They went sha na na na na nah na na nana na na na na


Chorus
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D         Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and the bells were ringing
G/D        Cmaj7/G         G/D             Cmaj7/G
The night they drove old Dixie down and all the people were singing
G/D          C         A              C
They went sha na na na na nah na na nana na na na na na
(repeat & fade)

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