ATF: First Lamentations

This weekly series will include as many of my all-time favorite tunes as I can get my grubby little hands on (so to speak).  Now, each one included in each edition will have some connection with the other—albeit only as a figment of my imagination, but they will not be numbered.  For I just cannot bring myself to rate some higher than others.  So, this will not be a countdown, but if you are enjoying them as much as I do, it won’t matter.  Besides, with no countdown, this could go on forever and ever!  Oh, and despite the fact that there is absolutely no way that your musical tastes can be as exquisite as mine, I welcome any suggestions that you might dare to make.  I am, after all, quite magnanimous by nature.

Link: [The Band]

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

The Band

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 all the bells were ringin’

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the people were singin’

They went

Na

Na na

Na na na

Na na na na

Na na na na na

Back with my wife in Tennessee

When one day she called to me

Virgil quick come see

There goes a 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 have never taken

The very best

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the bells were ringin’

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin’

They went

Na

Na na

Na na na

Na na na na

Na na na na na

Like my father before me

I’m a workin’ man

And like my brother before 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 ringin’

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the people were singin’

They went

Na

Na na

Na na na

Na na na na

Na na na na na

The night they drove old Dixie down

And all the bells were ringin’

The night they drove old Dixie down

And the people were singin’

They went

Na

Na na

Na na na

Na na na na

Na na na na na

Link: [Neil Young]

After The Gold Rush

Neal Young

Well I dreamed I saw the knights in armor comin’

Sayin’ something about a queen

There were peasants singin’

And drummers drummin’

And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowin’

To the sun

That was floating on the breeze

Look at Mother Nature on the run

In the nineteen seventies

Look at Mother Nature on the run

In the nineteen seventies

I was lyin’ in a burned out basement

With the full moon in my eyes

I was hopin’ for replacement

When the sun burst thru the sky

There was a band playin’

In my head

And I felt like getting high

I was thinkin’ about

What a friend had said

I was hopin’ it was a lie

Thinkin’ about

What a friend had said

I was hopin’ it was a lie

Well I dreamed I saw the silver space ships flyin’

In the yellow haze of the sun

There were children cryin’

And colors flyin’

All around the chosen ones

All in a dream

All in a dream

The loading had begun

Flyin’ Mother Nature's

Silver seed

To a new home in the sun

Flyin’ Mother Nature's

Silver seed

To a new home

Lyrics From: [A-Z Lyrics Universe]

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