Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

PBS SoundStage, August 2004

This will be the only extract I'll share on Youtube as my former videos were all deleted.

Please note that I have no intention to steal PBS; my only wish is to share my admiration for Joan Baez's work. The concert was awesome, I hope people who haven't yet will get a chance to see it.

Hopefully the DVD will someday be part of PBS SoundStage merchandise, so that we can legally see it (we, in France, cannot get the program!)

Copyright: http://www.pbs.org/wttw/soundstage/jbaez/featured.htm

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Lyrics (as sung by Joan):

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "

Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just 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 ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat

The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, ..... "

Original Lyrics written by J. Robbie Robertson from The Band:
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/b/band/the+night+they+drove+old+dixie+down_20012332.html

Meaning of the song: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night_They_Drove_Old_Dixie_Down