I like the way Baez did it. Whether she sings it that way or not, the lyrics attributed to her singing it, at Lyrics World, are the same as the ones you say are the original, LH. Of course we don't know how meticulous the transcriber was and there is one mistake, that I can see. This one says "I don't care if MY money's no good" and it should "THEIR." Now I will have to go dick out my Diamonds and rust tape and listen...carefully:-)THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN
Joan Baez
Written by J. Robbie RobertsonVirgil 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 sixty-five, we were hungry, just barely alive.
By May the tenth, Richmond had fell;
It's a time I remember oh, so well...Night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin',
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'! They went...
La-la-la-la-la-la,
La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la.Back with my wife in Tennessee, when one day she called to me,
"Virgil, quick, come see: there goes the Robert E. Lee!"
Now, I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if my money's no good.
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best.Chorus
Like my father before me, I will work the land.
And, like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand.
He was just 18, proud and brave, when 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.Chorus