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

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

Like my father before me I will work the land
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
I swear by the mud below my feet
You can't raise a caine back up when he's in defeat

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