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Virgil Caine is the name, and I
served on the Danville train,
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'Til Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again.
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In the winter of '65, We were hungry, just barely alive.
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By May the tenth, Richmond
had fell, it's a time I remember, oh so well,
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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, and the bells were
ringing,
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The Night They Drove Old
Dixie Down, and the people were singin'. They went
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La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La,
La,
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Back
with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,
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