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Virgil Caine is my name, and I drove on the Danville train,

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Til Stonewall's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.

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In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.

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By May the tenth, Richmond had fell

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It was 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 all the people were singing.

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They went, "Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na."

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Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she said to me.

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"Virgil, quick come see, here comes the Robert E. Lee."

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Well I don't mind chopping wood,

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And I don't care if my money's no good.

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You 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 will work the land.

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And like my brother up above 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 a Caine back up when he's in defeat.