Posted on 08/16/2017 2:36:44 PM PDT by RooRoobird20
"Virgil Caine is the name, and I served 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 tenth, Richmond had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,
[Chorus] The night they drove old Dixie down, and the bells were ringing, The night they drove old Dixie down, and the people were singin'. they went La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la,"
That’s a spooky song. It gives me goose bumps.
Joan got in big trouble with the Lefties when she dared to criticize the Communist Vietnamese regime for Human Rights Violations.
In May 1989, Baez performed at a music festival in communist Czechoslovakia called Bratislavská lýra. While there, she met future Czechoslovakian president Václav Havel, whom she let carry her guitar so as to prevent his arrest by government agents. During her performance, she greeted members of Charter 77, a dissident human-rights group, which resulted in her microphone being shut off abruptly. Baez then proceeded to sing a cappella for the nearly four thousand gathered. Havel cited her as a great inspiration and influence in that country’s Velvet Revolution, the revolution in which the Soviet-dominated communist government there was overthrown.
Joan, you’re ok, in my book.
It was written by a Canadian.
That makes sense, but still 'Old Dixie' is the slave holding state.
Everybody who has listened to that song is a racist.
And people are singing because they drove it down.
One of those songs where both the original and the cover are wonderful. My parents played her albums, she had such a mournful voice.
It was first written by the group The Band, the primary composer being a Canadian, Robbie Robertson. In performance, the lead vocals were by Levon Helm, who was truly gifted with his agonized expressions of torment of the southerner singing the song. Most people assumed it was a modern adaptation of a traditional song.
It is the highlight of one of the best concert films ever,
Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz (1978), after which The Band broke up, just before they became wildly popular because of the movie.
Joan Baez really fouled up the lyrics, btw, which didn’t matter because it still became a hit for her.
From the movie, The Last Waltz:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kBd_P-M3kc&t=0m55s
I like them both equally.
LMAO, yeah, go buy a stupid hammer for five bucks Pete Seeger!!
Been down that crazy river, myself. See ya sometime? : )
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