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1860 年美國總統選舉，林肯當選第 16 任美國總統。來自美國北方的共和黨總統候選人亞伯拉罕林肯，是反對奴隸制度的溫和派，雖然不是解放黑奴的倡言者，但他認為蓄奴不人道，而一向以奴隸來發展產業的南方對此感到強烈反對。 在他入主白宮前，有七個州脫離聯邦，1861 年 2 月 9 日，它們組織建立了一個新的南方政府—美利堅聯盟國( Confederate States of America )，傑佛森戴維斯( Jefferson Davis )為總統，並且依據美國憲法建立政府。這些州分別是： •南卡羅萊納州（1860年12月21日） •密西西比州（1861年1月9日） •佛羅里達州（1861年1月10日） •阿拉巴馬州（1861年1月11日） •喬治亞州（1861年1月19日） •路易斯安納州（1861年1月26日） •德克薩斯州（1861年2月1日） 這些事件引發了內戰 ( Civil War，1860 ~ 1865 )，一場長達四年的殘忍血腥衝突，南方各州戰敗，約有 500 萬以上的美國人在這場終止奴隸制度的戰爭中犧牲。
首張專輯就有極高評價的 The Band
合唱團，團員 Robbie Robertson 羅比羅伯森對南北戰爭產生興趣，特地研究其歷史緣由，也到南方各州實地訪查，寫下了" The night
they drove old Dixie down
"這首歌曲。
圖片來源：American
Civil War Year-By-Year Timeline 關於美國內戰－－南北戰爭
以下轉貼自樂友 Thomas 王的意見：
世人為什麼會把美國南北戰爭定位為「解放黑奴」的戰爭呢？ |
1971 年的錄音室版本，曾登上全美百大單曲榜第三名
Joan Baez 的版本歌詞和原唱有少許出入，茲將原始版本歌詞張貼於後：
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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 goes Robert E. Lee!" Now I don't mind chopping 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 Na-na-na...... Like my father before me, I will work the land 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 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...... |