Americký písničkář pocházející z Nového Mexika (nar. 1943), vl. jm. Henry John Deutschendorf. Hudebně čerpá především z folku a country. Výrazný autor balad. Po odchodu do L.A. se v roce 1965 přidává ke skupině The Chad Mitchell Trio. Po...

Píseň: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Interpret:
John Denver
Album:
Whose Garden Was This?
Virgil Caine is the name I served on the Danville train 
 The stoneman's cavalery came and tore up the tracks again 
 In the summer 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 the bells were ringing 
 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the people were singing 
 They went la la la la la la... 


 Back home in Tennessee my wife called out to me 
 Said Virgil come quick and see, there goes Robert E. Lee 
 I don't mind chopping wood 
 And I don't care if the money ain't good 
 You take what you need and save the rest 
 But they should never have taken the very best 


 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the bells were ringing 
 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the people were singing 
 They went la la la la la la... 


 Like my father before me, he was a workin' man 
 Like my brother above me, he took a rebel stand 
 Was just 18, proud and brave 
 When a Yankee laid him in his grave 
 I swept out the blood beneath my feet 
 You can't raise a Caine back up when it's in defeat 


 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the bells were ringing 
 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the people were singing 
 They went la la la la la la... 


 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the bells were ringing 
 The night they drove old Dixie down 
 And the people were singing 
 They went la la la la la la...