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