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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down by The Band - Guitar Chords

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            Gsus4 xx5533
Fsus4 xx3311

[Verse]
Am            C                      F                      Dm
     Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train,
Am                    C                F                  Dm
     'Til Stonewall's Calvery came and tore up the tracks again.
Am                     F           C                   Dm
     In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
Am                     F                         C      Dm              D
     By May the tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,

[Chorus:]

    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'.  They went
C             Am              Gsus4                  Fsus4             F      (end on C last chorus)
La, La, La,   La, La, La,     La, La, La, La, La,    La, La, La,       La


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


[Chorus:]

    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'.  They went
C             Am              Gsus4                  Fsus4             F      (end on C last chorus)
La, La, La,   La, La, La,     La, La, La, La, La,    La, La, La,       La


[Verse]
   Am                  C       F               Dm
     Like my father before me, I will work the land,
   Am                   C            F            Dm
     Like my brother abo--ve me, who took a rebel stand.
   Am                      F                       C                      Dm
     He was just eighteen, proud and brave,  But a Yankee laid him in his grave,
   Am                   F
     I swear by the mud below my feet,
               C                  Dm              D
     You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat.    

[Chorus:]

    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing,
    C          Fmaj7           C             Fmaj7
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'.  They went
C             Am              Gsus4                  Fsus4             F      (end on C last chorus)
La, La, La,   La, La, La,     La, La, La, La, La,    La, La, La,       La
Repeat Chorus  x2 and fade 
        

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