The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down chords
Joan Baez  1971 (The Band,  R. Robinson)

Capo I

Am C 2x C Am

Am     C                        F                      
Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville 
Am
train
C                Am                F                   Am
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came, and tore up the tracks again.
F                 C           Am           F
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
Am                  F                         C   
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell, it's a time I 
     Am            D
remember, oh so well,

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells 
were ringing,
    C          F               C             Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were 
singin'. They went
C               Am  D           F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

Am C Am C 2x C Am

Am                   C               F                   Am
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to 
me
C        Am               F                    Am
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
F                 Am                   C                 
Now I don't mind' choppin' wood, and I don't care if the 
Am
money's no good.
   F                      Am
Ya take what ya need, and leave the rest,
                C          Am             D
but they should never have taken the very best.

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells 
were ringing,
    C          F               C             Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were 
singin'. They went
C               Am  D           F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La

Am C Am C 2x C Am

Am               C       F              Am
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man
C                Am      F               Am
Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand.
       F              Am                     C           
He was just eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid 
    Am
him in his grave
  F                    Am
I swear by the mud below my feet,
          C                   Am                  D
you can't raise a Caine back up when he’s in defeat.

    C          F               C                 Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells 
were ringing,
    C          F               C             Am
The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were 
singin'. They went
C               Am  D           F
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La


Set8

http://sites.google.com/site/guitarmusicchordsandlyrics/