The Band - 70s
| Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train, |
| 'Til Stoneman's Calvery 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, |
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| 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 choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good. |
| Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest, |
| But they never should have taken the very best. |
| Like my father before me, I will work the land, |
| Like my brother above me, who took a rebel stand. |
| He was just eighteen, proud and brave, But a Yankee laid him in his grave, |
| I swear by the mud below my feet, |
| You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat. |