View Guitar Chords for The night they drove - chords ver. 2
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down By Robbie Robertson (As performed by Joan Baez) capo 1st fretC Am Virgil CCaine is my name, and I drove on thFe Danville train, Am 'CTil Stoneman's Calvery Amcame and tore up the trackFs again. AmFIn the winter of '65, WCe were hungry, just bAmarely alive. F Am By May the tenth, RichmondF had fell, it's a time I remember, ohC so well, Am D(Chorus)The NighCt They Drove OAmld Dixie Down, Fand the bCells were ringing, Am F The NighCt They Drove OlAmd Dixie Down, Fand the pCeople were singin'. TAmhey went FCLa, La, La, LAma, La, La, La, LaD, La, La, La, La, F La, La, C BAmack with my wife in TennesseeC, When one day she said to Fme, AmC "VirgAmil, quick, come see, therFe goes a Robert E. Lee!" Am F C A m F Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.YAma take what ya need and ya leave the rest, F But they shoulCd never have taken the very bAmest. D(Chorus)Am Like my father beforCe me, I will worFk the land, Am LCike my brother above me,Am who took a rebel stanFd. AmHFe was just eighteen, proud and brCave, But a Yankee laid him in his grAmave, F Am I swear by the mud below my Ffeet,YoCu can't raise a Caine back up when he's inAm defeat. D (Chorus and fade)