Earworm: "Virgil Cane is my name . . ."

[Heidi]

The Night They Drove Ole Dixie Down

Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Denver train
Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65 we was hungry, just barely alive
By May 10, Richmond had fell, it was a time I remember, oh so well

The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the bells were ringing
The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the people were singing
Na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na

Back with my wife in Tennessee one day she called for me
Virgil quick come see there goes the "Robert E. Lee"
I don't mind chopping wood and I don't care if the money's no good
Take what you need and leave the rest
They should never have taken the very best

Like my father before me, I'm a peaceful man
Like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Just 18, proud and gray, but a Yankee laid him in his grave
Swear by the blood running through (on) my feet
You can't raise a Caine back up when he's in defeat

[Arugula Latte]

1. I guess I always misheard that last line.

I thought they were singing "You can't raise the cane back up when it's in the field" meaning, after you mow cane or wheat or something down with a scythe, it can't rise again ... which is similar to the real meaning ...

[Metta]

2. Memories, :~~>

Good times.

The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the bells were ringing
The night they drove ole Dixie down, all the people were singing
Na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na, na na na na na na

[underpants]

3. Danville train

not Denver-Danville as in Danville Va. the last capital of the confederacy. DANVILLE.

[Heidi]

4. I love this song.

I was raised throughout the south, and spent my adolescence in Oklahoma, and have no attachments to the "negative" aspects of southern history, and I thank you for pointing out to everyone else that it's Danville, not Denver (a western, not southern, state), underpants. :thumbsup:

[Midlodemocrat]

5. You tell her underpants. - It's DANVILLE, dammit.

We VIRGINIANS will not be denied.




:hide:

[underpants]

6. Yeah! we won't be cheated out of OUR story about a subsistence farmer

who fights in and whose family DIES for the LOSING side of a war.

Hell no We WANT *our* moment in the sun. It's pretty much that an a Robbin Thompson song and a few lines in CCR songs.....oh and that MASH clip.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. Damn straight.

And, according to the Richmond Times Dispatch, we didn't lose.

[underpants]

11. H.Ross says that conventional wisdom.....

:eyes:

That reminds me I need to mail this week's letter to the op-ed staff over there....complete with pictures of the Ashe statue on Monument :bounce::evilgrin:

[Midlodemocrat]

8. Sure hope Heidi knows that underpants and I were kidding.

and not dissing her.

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Heidi has left the building.

She has taken the Danville/Denver train upstairs to read "The History Of The Civil War" while simultaneously watching "Revenge Of The Sith". So, it's just you, me, Retro Lounge, and underpants left here to iron out the by-laws of the new DU Boob Clique.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4246655&mesg_id=4247642

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

9. I was just playin' that song last night

and singin' along with my pickin'

[In_The_Wind]

10. I have loved listening to Joan Baez almost all my life ...

thank you !