The night they drove old dixie down. The Story Behind The Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by The Band

Just because it tells the story of a man in the south who worked on the railroad and probably never owned a slave that lost a brother in the Civil war Like somebody had died and since that moment all regrets are concentrated not on the process of dying but on the final fact
They went, Na, Na, Na, Na, 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 above me, who took a rebel stand According to two august dictionaries it's "origin unknown"

I've tried to follow what people wrote, but can't guarantee consistency.

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Behind the Song: The Band, Night They Drove Old Dixie
Lee has also been praised for ordering his troops to surrender once and for all, thus avoiding a protracted guerilla war that could have gone on for months and years
The Story Behind The Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by The Band
Robbie has mentioned his love affair with the South
The Story Behind The Song: The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, by The Band
I have never heard or seen a performance to equal this one
What I get out of it- before he joined the Conf'd army, Virgil and his wife saw Lee and his troop passed near his farm Initially publishers gave reason after reason why they shouldn't be used
I think the problem is that Levon changed the lyrics from the original version We're talking about all these subtleties and everything, and it wasn't about wanting to play in subtleties, it was about having to play in subtleties

Even after the shooting war ended, they assisted in chasing down and capturing Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down Lyrics
Note that this simplistic and hopelessly romantic analysis ignores concepts of opposing economic systems
Meaning of the song “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down”
Some units would have known it was all over, others probably not
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
We should consider ourselves so very fortunate that The Band has made it ours