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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (1969) | |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 69616609 United States06/27/2015 06:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Band's song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was originally released on their 1969 debut album, The Band. This version uses the live version taken from The Last Waltz concert from 1976. This is a song about a confederate soldier named Virgil Caine and his days in the American Civil War. The song is certainly not meant to be political it's simply a reflection on a historical period of America which was extraordinarily captured by the words and music of The Band. -MetalGuruMessiah |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 69616609 United States06/27/2015 06:13 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The civil war was not about slavery. First things first, the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln; Lincoln was NOT an abolitionist. William Lloyd Garrison, the most prominent of all abolitionists, concluded that Lincoln "had not a drop of anti-slavery blood in his veins." Lincoln was against social and political equality of the races, he opposed inter-racial marriages, supported the Illinois Constitution's prohibition of immigration of blacks into the state, defended a slave owner who was seeking to retrieve his runaway slaves but never defended slaves or runaways themselves, and he was a lifelong advocate of colonization... - of sending every last black person in the U.S. to Africa, Haiti, or central America - anywhere but in the United States. In August of 1852 Lincoln said "If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it… what I do about slavery and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union." Lincoln also said on September 18th, 1858, "I will say, then, that I am not, nor have I ever been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races." In 1861 Lincoln was asked "why not let the South go in peace?" He replied by saying "I can't let them go. Who would pay for the government?" I have found no proof that Lincoln was a slave owner, but I can tell you without a doubt in my mind that he was not seeking to abolish slavery. -Mr Grimv (MrGrimV1)  |
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The Uncle  User ID: 68846668 United States06/27/2015 08:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw Levon Helm and his band at the Rams Head Inn, Baltimore Inner Harbor in 2009. The Washington Post music critic was there, and I bought him a drink. I was expecting Levon to play this song, but they didn't. I asked the critic "why didn't they play Dixie" and he said "I imagine they're sick of it". Last Edited by The Uncle on 06/27/2015 08:03 AM |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 69616609 United States06/27/2015 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I saw Levon Helm and his band at the Rams Head Inn, Baltimore Inner Harbor in 2009. The Washington Post music critic was there, and I bought him a drink. I was expecting Levon to play this song, but they didn't. I asked the critic "why didn't they play Dixie" and he said "I imagine they're sick of it". I hate fake music reporters. They just suck. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 37389491 United States06/27/2015 08:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (1969) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69616609 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 'Til 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 The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there go the 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 should never have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" Like my father before me, I will work the land And 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 The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na" The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na" This song has been playing in my head for two days. I, like you, researched it. I was suprised That Robbie Robertson wrote it...and that it was originally Done by The Band. I also like Joan Baez's version. This song is poignant and sad. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 69616609 United States06/27/2015 08:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band (1969) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 69616609 [link to www.youtube.com (secure)] Virgil Caine is the name and I served on the Danville train 'Til 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 The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me "Virgil, quick, come see, there go the 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 should never have taken the very best The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "La, la, la" Like my father before me, I will work the land And 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 The night they drove old Dixie down And the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na" The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringing The night they drove old Dixie down And the people were singing They went, "Na, na, na" This song has been playing in my head for two days. I, like you, researched it, and was suprised That Robbie Robertson wrote it...and that it was originally Done by The Band. I also like Joan Baez's version. This song is poignant and sad.  |
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