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Virgil Cain is my name and I served on the Danville train
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till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
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in the winter of sixty-five
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we were hungry just barely alive
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I drove a train to Richmond, Nefelle
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it was a time I remember very well.
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The night they drove old Dixie down
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and all the bells were ringin'
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the night they drove old Dixie down
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and all the people were singin'
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na na na ...
Back with my wife in Tennessee one day she said to me
"Virgil quick come see there goes the Robert E. Lee"
Now I don't mind choppin' wood
and I don't care if the money's no good
you take what you need and you leave the rest
but they should never have taken the very best.
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Like my father before me I'm a workin' man
and like my brother above me I took a rebel stand
he was eighteen proud and brave
but a Yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood beneath my feet
you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat.
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