Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Joan Baez did not write this song!

"The Band" authored this tune. A great song none the less!

@willys55cj3b read the description! I think everybody knows who wrote the song!?

does noone know that the band ,the writers and creators of this entire song ,were CANADIAN.

I disgree with her politics--it's all total bullshit-- but she's a great talent and I enjoy her music,

Myself, as a veteran I honor the valor of ALL those who served in that war--North and South White and Black. There were good people and genuine heroes on both sides.

@artanaxes Listen to the WORDS of this song? What is so heroic about "taking the very best"? Richmond's defenceless women cried out , "no, no, no, no." Get it now?

simply the best

I remember Joan Baez from when I was a child. I liked this song but I didn't understand it until I grew up and heard it and listened. Right ON Joan!! Thank-you for putting this together. People laugh because sometimes people don't know how to handle themselves in certain situations. The Civil War was a sad time, brother rose against brother for the cause of keeping slaves in bondage. Its good to remember our history. Would you take a rebel stand?

I'm English, so I don't really want to get involved in a hundred and fifty year old war many miles away, but I read Shelby Foote's definitive book on the Civil War and as I understood it it was about the rights of individual states versus federalism. According to Foote Lincoln only decided to abolish slavery fairly late in the war in order to damage the economy of the Confederacy. Right now we have a problem with federalism here in Europe - and yes I would take a rebel stand!

@birchwand It seems that Mr. Lincoln wished to impose an early form of Marxism upon the American Union. If Northern Douglass or Bell had been elected, the Union would have been preserved, and war avoided.