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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down (The Band)
The Band, Youtube ^ | Robertson, Robbie.

Posted on 06/26/2015 6:21:04 AM PDT by xzins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM&list=RDjREUrbGGrgM#t=48

Virgil Caine is my name and I drove 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 10th, Richmond had fell.
It's a time I remember, oh so well.


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

Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E.Lee!"
Now I don't mind I'm choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
You 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 ringing,
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singing.
They went, "Na,na,na na
'Na,na,na.na na na na na na..'


Like my father before me, I will work the land,
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
He was just eighteen, proud and brave,
but a Yankee laid him in his grave.
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat


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


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


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: civilwar; civilwar2; doublestandard; revisionisthistory; theband
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To: xzins
I like this version. The music is the same, but the words are totally different. It tells the story of a young man who starts taking drugs, gets addicted, goes downhill and finally dies, leaving his girlfriend devastated. It was a big hit in West Germany in the spring of 1972.

Conny Kramer--Juliane Werding

21 posted on 06/26/2015 7:18:43 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: OttawaFreeper
I’m also beginning to wonder if programs like “Hee Haw” and “Mama’s Family” and “In the Heat of the Night” will be regarded with the same suspicion of Southern bigotry as if on the same scale as “The Birth of a Nation”.

When it opened in 1947, the popular Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow was almost certainly hailed as "progressive" for its attack on Jim Crow and race prejudice. Today, it would be considered highly "racist" for its portrayal of Southern folkways, so don't hold your breath waiting for some theatrical troupe to revive it.

22 posted on 06/26/2015 7:30:04 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Some thing that will have to change:

The song was #245 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.

Pitchfork Media named it the forty-second best song of the Sixties. The song is included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s “500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll” and Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 (from Wikipidia).


23 posted on 06/26/2015 7:47:48 AM PDT by glabbe
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To: xzins

Here. I’m a self-taught surgeon; and I’m going to give your Smiley Face a nose job -

:o) - How’s that?


24 posted on 06/26/2015 8:18:53 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: xzins

I heard a funny story about this song. When Robbie Robertson originally wrote this song, he had the wife saying here comes Abraham Lincoln. Levon, the only American in the group and a southerner from Arkansas had to inform Robbie (a Canadian) that no self respecting southerner would come out to see Abraham Lincoln and suggested Robert E. Lee.


25 posted on 06/26/2015 9:07:37 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: xzins

“Do you think we’ll have to stop showing, “The Outlaw Josie Wales”?”

No prob. I have it on DVD and watch it often! ;-)


26 posted on 06/26/2015 10:58:11 AM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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To: Squawk 8888

I could listen to that song all day long.


27 posted on 06/26/2015 11:23:18 AM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Hey! That reminds me of a song.")
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise

Are you boys gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?


28 posted on 06/26/2015 11:33:04 AM PDT by commish (The takers rule. Time to implement the triple G plan - GOD, GUNS, & GOLD)
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To: xzins

I am pretty fortunate to have seen both Levon Helm and Jim Weider at some small, very intimate venues.


29 posted on 06/26/2015 12:53:54 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: commish

“Are you boys gonna pull them pistols or whistle Dixie?”

No, I think that they are going to endeavor to persevere, think about it for awhile then declare war on the Union! LOL


30 posted on 06/26/2015 1:50:07 PM PDT by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Why does every totalitarian, political hack think that he knows how to run my life better than I?)
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