Joan Baez-the night they drove old dixie down

[cootesmuz]

Any time you are ready Joan , there's a spot in my bed just for you.....JUST BRILLIANT 

[DJKRAYZMIKE]

What?? A little louder....Oh Ok SHHHHHhhhhh...... Ill Sing Along softly....



[40AcreMule]

Good song for bringout out the stupidity of American liberals. A flaming left wing liberal like Joan Baez singing a ballad about a time in history that makes most flaming left wing liberals start whining and screaming "racism". So, one minute they hum to this tune and the next minute they want to haul down the Confederate flag. The hypocrasy of the American left knows no boundries.

[kja427]

I have Woodstock on DVD, and I understand she has a child my age(41 years old). I wonder if she sang to her kids like this. If so,they would be fast asleep when she got through. Nice job, Joan.

[Ladysensei]

Beautiful Version of this song. Nice song to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War here in Charleston, SC this week (April 12, 1861 was the firing of Fort Sumter and the beginning of the war)

[SUNNYCAS]

Wonderful artist, lovely song and excellent video quality.

[SpartacusDog1]

I think the Richie Havens solo version of this great song has a unique straight-up quality that makes for a wonderful result... I love it!

[Bojocatkite]

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G !

[thebear1050]

@ElMessiah

Well you are partially correct but remember a lot of Union soldiers died as well and all because the rich old men in the northeast and New England were angry because they thought the rich old men in the south were going to make more money.

[koropal]

These lyrics get tweaked quite a bit.Till so much cavalry came, is o.k. for an ad-lib but Stonewalls cavalry.I read Stonewall Jackson was full of peculiarities,lets hope that tearing up his own sides RR tracks wasn't one of them,then again he was killed by friendly fire.

[layton59]

Yea, she finally got General Stoneman of the Union Army in the lyrics right. How odd that this song was written by a Canadian (Robbie Robertson of THE BAND)

[rr5n]

Only took her a couple decades to figure out its "Stoneman's" and not "Stonewall's" cavalry.

[sartainja]

Good point.

[MiataBRG]

Awful. She's put it through the wash and rung all the life out of it.

[Garo48]

nope Joan, you didn't cut it on this one!! Sorry!

[Arbeeroro]

Beautiful.

I love this song generally but Baez' cover is my favourite version of it.

x

[camdan492]

f**k this

[sl26t]

this broad sucks. totally fucked this song up royally. she shoulda never touched it.. the black crowes and johnny cash did the best covers of this.

[Myrtle791]

"Southron musicians?" Joan's got a great voice, or did have in her prime. Wish I could play guitar as well as she.

[pandabaerchie]

when was this?

she's awesome!!

[RobertGary1]

NO YOU ARE NOT A "WORKING MAN" you "work the land". Jesus, of all the lyrical errors she makes in the song, this one irritates me the most. Working the land describes a common Southerner of the time, a working man could be anyone in the big cities in the North.

[acerb45666555]

its nice she sang this about the south. sad thing is that probably half the south back then and even today, never even heard of Joan Baez or even The Beatles! to much beer and to little education down there. damn shame.

[kwazi6]

I'm sure there are many excellent Southron musicians that you've never heard of. Asshole.

[RobertGary1]

And most of them know the lyrics to this song, unlike Baez. It just irritates me that she cared so little about the lyrics that she never even bothered to look them up before she recorded the song. It was just something she said she heard on the radio and thought it sounded cool. The meaning of the song was never interesting to her.

[kwazi6]

I didn't know that. Figures. Liberals always assume since they are defacto moraly superior to everyone else, they have license to borrow and rob from whomever they please.

[vaughnsalem]

who are you refering,,,this song was written by Robbie Robertson ,he is liberal,originally Bob Dylans band in the 60s,the song was origanally sung by Levon Helm the drummer in Robbys band,it is a respect for all north and south song

[kwazi6]

Let me alter my comment then. Liberals "usually"...

[matuesg1]

sofisticação !!!! muito linda.......

[LCdunzo]

absolutely beautiful.

[cwcav3tn]

hEY VINEGAROON 1, HERE IS WHERE STONEMAN'S CAVALRY WAS in 1865:March 20, 1865 General George Stoneman leads a cavalry force of 4000 Union soldiers from Jonesborough, in east Tennesee, toward North Carolina. Stoneman's raid, which is designed in part to destroy enemy transport lines, is also intended to aid Sherman's campaign.

March 29, 1865 Eastern Theater, Appomattox Campaign,

[jakeyj93]

nice song

[kajes5]

she really over-sang this and seems very mellow-dramatic

[vinegaroon1]

Danville is in Virginia, but Stoneman's cavalry was raiding in Georgia in 1865, right?

[Sandara29]

A voz dela ainda que não continue igual, continua boa, muito bonita.

[timlearybedead]

Just speaking from some recent interviews I've seen of her, she seems like a bitter old woman now. I can't really blame her though, the way society has done a complete 180 since she was in the spotlight.

[shemalegazebo]

i noticed that too. still u cant deny that amazing voice

[pamina28]

Search for "Joan Baez Sunday morning" on youtube and you'll see that she really isn't bitter at all. BTW calling a woman a "bitch" is simply misogynistic.

[Mehdihmili]

I love you

[Mickey70114]

she says "so much cavelry" she says that she wrote the words down from hearing the Band. Also she says virgil is a Working man, when the original says he will work the land...that rather changes the song. still its a good song sung by a good singer . Deo Vindice

[GaGirlie777]

Is Baez a Southerner?

[54spiritedwill54]

This is a really quiet video.

[deltabtry]

@54spiritedwill54 LMAO..but your right.

[vanauker2]

What the heck did I type? I meant stoneman not stonewall. obviously stonewall fought for the confederates!

[vanauker2]

These videos are puzzling to me because I have a version of this song where she doesn't make these changes. She sings "Stonewall" -- in fact it is word for word the same as the Band's version. Why does she change the lyrics in these videos?

[CrystalCanyons]

Average

[KackyKay]

if you read some history of the band, Robbie Robertson said she sang the song without any original lyrics from the band. She picked up the chords and put the lyrics to them as she thought she had heard them. Still like the song, although I prefer Levon singing the song.

[randyfloyd07]

why is it that she changes the lyrics? It is to the point that they don't even make sense now.  I took the train to Richmond that fell? How about you keep the original lyrics of, "may the tenth, richmond had fell?" Afterall it was how the song was written, and is historically accurate.

[stl6281z]

Long live Dixie

Deo Vindice

[txcail]

Joan Baez forever!

[Aurileus5]

Good cover. I wish she had a whole damn orchestra with her though

[jim28518]

a true star, Joan Baes.

the voice is pure, from the heart and understanding the words. richmond, va in the early 1970's still disliked yankies. i a yankee was there january 1970. most folks understood the civel war was over but many wanted something else.

wonder if feelings have changed much?

[tabber87]

It's amazing she was able to find a guitarist more affected than Robbie Robertson.

And with a worse voice!

[andrewcasarsa]

zing!

[achioino]

you're a dick.

[StevenGA1011]

is she still a hippie because now she just looks like my 7th grade teacher.

[doddledont]

HORRIBLE!

[Exnay777]

After 20 years go by still singing the wrong lyrics - I don't get it!

[taddyd1]

It's been over 30 years and She can sing any lyrics she wants. Her lyrics are an improvement and I am sure the Band never refused any royalty checks. She gave them their ONLY top ten hit. Nice soulful version here though, huh?

[rikhurley]

rofl her lyrics are innacurate historically so the song loses all meaning

[taddyd1]

one lyric change isn't even caught by most listeners. The blood beneath is better than the mud beneath. Relax and give props to the pathos and perfect flow she brings to the song.

[rikhurley]

she also says "someone's calvary" not stoneman's, and completely misses winter of 65, it causes the song to loose meaning, its meant to be a story if you just discard the facts it could be about anything.

[timlearybedead]

Listen closely she OBVIOUSLY says "Stoneman's calvary" AND "In the winter or 65".

Perhaps you need a hearing aid?

Anyway, Joan is a good singer and all, but she is a bitch in real life.

[rikhurley]

Oh i know in this version she does, in the original cover she did, she doesn't, I remember I commented on the wrong video mate.

[timlearybedead]

Ah yes I checked it and you're right. I read on Wiki that she didn't even know the lyrics when she recorded it, she just sung what she thought she heard lol.

[rikhurley]

lol, meh when your so coked up, I'm sure it sounded perfectly normal to her lol.

[4evrblu]

Is this the comatose version?

[ranchoboyeros]

superb

[songwriter92]

wonderful

[Pat2296]

I see she still hasn't bothered to learn the words.

[NSResponder]

She got some of them right. At least she says "stoneman's cavalry" now.

-jcr

[southernman517]

such a good job. i truely love this song. and you guys did an amazing job.

[NthgToFear]

Hey, I was there!

I forgot she butchered this song....

[whotookaegir]

This is a really quiet video.

[busmaster1]

danke

[Calinn86]

dpicc77 you're the greatest ZERO alive..

[Dogstar333]

This song is about pride even if the south lost the pople were never defeated, Thats how iv'e always seen it anyway.

[12thSTARvideo]

@Dogstar333 Deo Vindice

[KChery]

@Dogstar333 of course they weren't defeated, in their minds. But of course they took revenge on the innocent black population for more than a hundred years by passing very racist, segregationist and discriminatory laws (jim crow). As long as your people were and still able to make black people suffer they'd still believe that they weren't defeated. Thank God for Abe Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr.

[57mab]

@KChery As is they were treated 'so well' in the North the last 100 years... at least tell the whole story. Plenty of Slavery existed in the North. Up until the late 1830's, only one place in the U.S. sold more slaves than Charleston---- New York City.

[southernman516]

excellent. this is such a good song.

[SaskiaCornell]

Love you Joan - you're a gem.

Saskia

Australia

[mthivier]

And you're a flaming asshole

[chpumpkin]

incredible insight, messiah. history repeats itself like a bad fart. war is never about selfdefense. it is about a handfull of leaders, who lied to get elected and then revealed their true colors to accomplish their own selfish pursuits, at the expense of a mass of misdirected youth they call - g.i.'s

[honestkaos]

trapping black people in an inescapable cycle of slavery? you're claiming that 'welfare' is the reason that people are poor? "do some research".....hmmmmm. i would say that you need to take your own advice. socialism has ..very little to do with welfare. one can have welfare capitalism, but it's still capitalism. socialism is the public ownership of the means of production. oy ve..

[LC65]

I was refering to the modern white supremacist view of adopting the old Confederacy songs and symbols for political propaganda purposes. The songs and flags historically have had little to do with those things both the far Right and Far left alike have claimed they represent.

[LC65]

Nice, but I am surprised she is singing that song. She is such a liberal progresive spokes person that I did not think that she could sing a song symbolic of old Confederacy (slavery and conservative values).

[RicPhlare]

Slavery is not a conservative or political value.

She sings it because it's the only good song she ever did. Other than this song her music is crap.

[mthivier]

So is your opinion.

[hereweare23]

this song has nothing to do with slavery. conservative values have nothing to do with this song, either. There is a lot more to the fall of the old south than slavery and what you call "conservatve" values, and that is why this song has been covered by Baez, Johnny Cash, The Black Crowes, Vendetta Red, Bruce Hornsby, Jerry Garcia, The Decemberists. It is a song about heritage. get your stereotypical head out of the gutter.

[djl1980]

Slavery is not a conservative value. However traping black people in a neverending, unexscapable cycle of socialist slavery through welfare appers to be a liberal value.

Do some research, nobody who died in the civil war owned a slave.

[mrbill224]

what are you fucking stupid? im hoping this was a joke.... if not id like to see the extent of your own research

[taddyd1]

Thanks for posting I love. Her performance of In My Time of need from the same show used to be on Youtube and it's amazing too.