The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (The Band 3 of 10) Chords

[C] _ [G] _ [Am] _ [C] Virgil Kane is the name [F] and I served [Am] on the [Dm] Danville train
[Am] Till [C] Stoneman's Cavalry came [F] and tore [Am] up the tracks [Dm] again
[Am] In [F] the winter of 65 [C] we were hungry [Dm] just barely [Am] alive
I made the [F] 10th through Richmond at [C] fell
It's a time [Dm] I remember oh [D] so well
[C] The [F] night they drove old [C] Dixie down
[F] And the bells were [C] ringing
The [F] night they drove old [C] Dixie down
[F] And the people were [C] singing they went
[Am] La, la, la, [G] la, la, la, [F] la, la, la, la, [C] la
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[Am] Back with [C] my wife in Tennessee, [F] [Am] when one day [Dm] she called me.
[Am] _
[C] Virgil, quick, come [F] see, [Am] there goes [Dm] the poverty leave.
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[Am] I don't [F] mind chopping wood, [C] and I don't care [Dm] if the [F] money's no [Am] good.
You take what you [F] need and you leave the rest, [C] but they should never
[F] have taken the [D] very [C] best.
[F] Tonight they go home, [C] Dixon down!
[F] And the bells were [C] ringing, tonight [F] they go [C] home, Dixon down!
[F] And all the people were [C] singing, they went da-la [Am]-la-la-la [A]-la-la-la-la-la-la [F]-la-la-la [C]-la-la-la-la-la.
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[Am] _ Like my father [C] before me, [Am] I will work the [Dm] land.
[Am] And [C] like my brother before me, [F] who [Am] took a treble [Dm] stand, he [Am] was just eighteen, [F] proud and brave.
[C] But a Yankee [Dm] played him in his grave.
[Am] I swear by the blood [F] below my [C] feet, you can't raise [Dm] a cane back up when he's in [D] defeat.
_ [C] The [F] night they drove old [C] Dixie down, [F] and the bells were [C] ringing.
The night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down, [F] and all the people were [C] singing.
And they went night, [Am] night, night, [G] night, night, night, [F] night, night, night, night, night, [C] night.
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[D] _ [C] _ [D] _ [C] _ [F] The night they drove old [C] Dixie down, [F] and all the bells were [C] ringing.
The night [F] they drove old [C] Dixie down, [F] and the people were [C] singing.
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