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The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Robbie Robertson

Tablature for Bass and Guitar
Created with Guitar Pro 4.0

First intro guitar
                      G 
E||-------------------3---------||
B||--1----------------0---------||
G||-------------------0---------||
D||----------0--2--3--0---------||
A||--3----------------2---------||
E||-------------------3---------||

Bass
G||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|| 
D||----7----------5-------------|-----------------------------|| 
A||-----------------------------|------8--------7-----5-------|| 
E||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||

Guitar

    C  Am      C  G                  F         E      Dm                  
E||-0--0-------0--3-------------|----1----------0------1------||
B||-1--1-------1--0-------------|----1----------0------3------||
G||-0--2-------0--0-------------|----2----------1------2------||
D||-2--2-------2--0-------------|----3----------2------0------||
A||-3--0-------3--2-------------|----0----------2-------------||
E||-0--0-------0--3-------------|----1-------1--0-------------||

       Virgil Caine is the name  and I served on the Danville train

G||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|| 
D||------7----------5-----------|-----------------------------|| 
A||-----------------------------|------8--------7-----5-------|| 
E||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||


    Am         C  G                  F          E      Dm                  
E||-0----------0--3-------------|----1----------0------1------||
B||-1----------1--0-------------|----1----------0------3------||
G||-2----------0--0-------------|----2----------1------2------||
D||-2----------2--0-------------|----3----------2------0------||
A||-0----------3--2-------------|----0----------2-------------||
E||---------------3-------------|----1-------1--0-------------||

    'Til Stoneman's cavalry came    and tore up  the tracks again

G||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||
D||-----------------------------|-----------------------------||
A||---7-----------8-------------|----10-----------------------||
E||-----------------------------|--------------8-------10-----||
 

     Am   E            F              C           Dm         
E||--0----0------------1--------|-----0-----------1-----------||
B||--1----0------------1--------|-----1-----------3-----------||
G||--2----1------------2--------|-----0-----------2-----------||
D||--2----2------------3--------|-----2-----------0-----------||
A||--0----2------------0--------|-----3-----------------------||
E||-------0------------1--------|-----------------------------||

         In the winter of '65   We were hungry just barely alive

G||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------||
D||-----------------------------|-----------------------------|---------10h-12--||
A||---7-----------8-------------|-----10----------------------|-10h-12----------||
E||-----------------------------|---------------8------10-----|-----------------||


    Am E            F                       C        Dm       D          
E||-0--0------------1-------------|---------0--------1--------2-----||
B||-1--0------------1-------------|---------1--------3--------3-----||
G||-2--1------------2-------------|---------0--------2--------2-----||
D||-2--2------------3-------------|---------2--------0--------0-----||
A||-0--2------------0-------------|---------3--------0--------------||
E||-0--0------------1-------------|---------0-----------------------||

     By May the tenth Richmond had fell it's a time I remember oh so well


CHORUS
                                                              2x                        
G||------------------------------|----------------------------||
D||------------------------------|----------------------------||
A||------------------------------|----------------------------||
E||--3------3------1-------1-----|--3-----3-----1-----1-------||
 
     C  G            Fmaj7                C     G                    Fmaj7      2x 

E||--0--3-------------1----------|--------0-----3-------------||-------1--------||
B||--1--0-------------1----------|--------1-----0-------------||-------1--------||
G||--0--0-------------2----------|--------0-----0-------------||-------2--------||
D||--2--0-------------1----------|--------2-----0-------------||-------1--------||
A||--3--2-------------0----------|--------3-----2-------------||-------0--------||
E||--0--3-------------1----------|--------0-----3-------------||-------1--------||

   The Night     They  Drove       Old Dixie Down, and the bells were ringing
   The Night     They  Drove       Old Dixie Down, and the people were singin'

                                                              2x
G||------------------------------|----------------------------||------------||*Bass End of Chorus
D||-----------------------------------------------------------||------5-----||
A||-----5------------------------|----------------------------||---3------3-||
E||--3-----3------5-------5------|--3-----3-----1-----1-------||------------||


        C  G             Am          Gsus4      F      C     
E||-----0--3--------------0------|--3-----------1------0------||
B||-----1--0--------------1------|--1-----------1------1------||
G||-----0?-0--------------2------|--0-----------2------0------||
D||-----2--0--------------2------|--0-----------3------2------||
A||-----3--2--------------0------|--3-----------0------3------||
E||-----0--3--------------0------|--3-----------1------0------||

They went Na  na na na na na    na  na  na  na  na   na       


* the Bass Play at the end of chorus is different in the next verses

Second verse :

G||----------------------|---------------------||
D||-------5---------3----|-----------5---------||
A||--3---------3---------|--3-------------3----||
E||----------------------|---------------------||

Third verse :   

G||----------------------|---------------------||
D||-----------5----------|--4--2--0------------||
A||---3-------------3----|------------3--2--0--||
E||----------------------|---------------------||

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