Posted on 06/26/2015 6:21:04 AM PDT by xzins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM&list=RDjREUrbGGrgM#t=48
Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the 10th, Richmond had fell.
It's a time I remember, oh so well.
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na,na,na.na,
Na na na na na na na na na.''
Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee!"
Now I don't mind I'm choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
You take what you need and leave the rest,
But they should never have taken the very best.
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing.
They went, "Na,na,na na
'Na,na,na.na na na na na na..'
Like my father before me, I will work the land,
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
but a Yankee laid him in his grave.
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing
They went, "Na, na, na na ... "
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringing.
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing.
They went, "Na, na, na na ..."
Rewriting history....ridding us of the memory of the Civil War. The true night they drove ole Dixie down.
Baez must be so embarrassed she recorded that. Hope she makes a public recantation!
Yep. I was thinking about all them old, liberal hippies and their affinity for the rebels of the Old South.
No no no no no!
That song is evil and hateful and it should be BANNED!
I’m not listening!
LALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALALA!
;-)
Amazing how times change, isn’t it?
Since Chinese and East Europeans have used the Confederate flag as a sign of freedom, I hope Obama goes after THEM. Of course, China’s main industry is manufacturing them!
Who was that Middle Ages Pope who’s corpse was dug up and put on trial for heresey?
We’re probably headed in that direction. When they dig up Lee they can have a two-fer; dig up Traveller as well for trial as a co conspirator.
(/sarc)
One of The Band’s best efforts. Love Levon Helm’s voice.
Yup.
Yup.
Do you think we’ll have to stop showing, “The Outlaw Josie Wales”?
Since I’m not a fan, I can only say: I hope so!
England used to do this as well. They may have done it to Oliver Cromwell, memory fails at the moment.
You’re supposed to put a smiley face on heresy. :>)
I think with Cromwell they just stuck his head on a pike and let it sit outside for a while.
“A while” being something like 20 years.
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This song is racist and must be banned.
I’m also beginning to wonder if programs like “Hee Haw” and “Mama’s Family” and “In the Heat of the Night” will be regarded with the same suspicion of Southern bigotry as if on the same scale as “The Birth of a Nation”.
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