The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Chords by Johnny Cash

[Start]

[Verse]
Bm        D               
■  Virgil Caine is my name
      G                      Bm   
And I served on the Danville train
D                  Bm          
■ 'till Stoneman's cavalry came
    G                  Bm   
And tore up the tracks again
G                  D        
■ In the winter of sixtyfive
        Bm          G           
We were hungry just barely alive
Bm           G                
By may tenth Richmond had fell
           D           Bm             E   
And it's a time that I remember oh so well


[Chorus]
    D          Bm        G     D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                
And all the bells were ringing
D              Bm        G     D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                      D   
And all the people were singin they went
            Bm         
Na na na na na na na na
               G          
Na na na na na na na na na
D Bm D Dbm7 Bm7 Bm
■ ■  ■ ■    ■   ■ 


[Verse]
                     D        
Like with my wife in Tennessee
G                   Bm
One day she said to me
D        Bm                   
■ Virgil quick come see Virgil
G                   Bm 
There goes Robert E Lee
G                 D            
■ Now I dont mind choppin' wood
Bm                      G              
And I don't care if the money's no good
Bm                              G             
Just take what you need and you leave the rest
         D                 Bm             E   
But they never should have taken the very best


[Chorus]
D              Bm        G     D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                
And all the bells were ringing
    D                    G     D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                      D   
And all the people were singin they went
               Bm      
Na na na na na na na na
   E           G          
Na na na na na na na na na
D Bm7 D Dbm7 Bm7 Bm
■ ■   ■ ■    ■   ■ 


[Verse]
               D        
Like my father before me
G                 Bm  
■ I will work the land
D                 Bm      
■ Like my brother above me
G               Bm   
He took a rebel stand
       G             D              
He was just eighteen proud and brave
      Bm              G           
And a yankee laid him in his grave
Bm                 G            
I swear by the mud below my feet
D                            Bm              E     
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat


[Chorus]
    D          Bm    G         D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                
And all the bells were ringing
D              Bm        G     D   
The night they drove old Dixie down
            Bm                            D
And all the people were singing they went ■
               Bm      
Na na na na na na na na
      E7          G       
Na na na na na na na na na


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