[00:03.43] Virgil Caine is my name and I served on the Danville train,
[00:10.43] Till so much cavalry came and they tore up the tracks again
[00:18.06] In the winter of sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive
[00:25.12] By May the tenth, Richmond had fell - it's a time I remember oh so well
[00:34.31] The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringing
[00:41.56] The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singing
[00:48.87] They went "La, la, la-la, la, La, la, la-la, la-la, la-la, la"
[01:01.13] Back with my wife in Tennesee, when one day she called to me
[01:08.38] "Virgil, quick, come see, there goes the Robert E. Lee."
[01:15.81] Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
[01:23.26] Take what you need and leave the rest,
[01:26.75] But they should never have taken the very best."
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[02:03.16] Like my father before me, I'm a working man
[02:10.40] Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
[02:17.53] He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
[02:25.16] I swear by the blood below my feet
[02:28.59] You can't raise the cane back up when it's in the feed
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