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60. Joan Baez, "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down"

Sat Aug 9, 2025, 08:35 AM

Aug 9

Virgil Caine is the name, and I served on the Danville train
Till 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

Last year of the Civil War.

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