The Band

When i get off of this mountain You know where i want to go Straight down the mississippi river To the gulf of mexico To lake charles, louisiana Little bessie, girl that i once knew And she told me just to come on by If there’s anything she could do Up on cripple creek she…

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,…