Here are the complete song lyrics:
The night they drove old Dixie down
And into the ocean deep,
Old Johnny Reb came ridin' back,
From 'cross the fields of sleep.
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Johnny, I hardly knew ye!
Dressed up in your silks so fine.
As once you rode in silks so gay
Now Johnny, I hardly knew ye.
We watched him from the hillside
As once he rode in state,
A banner with the words "No never return"
The sun upon the plate.
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He may ride forever 'neath streets of Boston,
He's a ghost of the land of the South,
No matter where that horse may go
He'll carry old Johnny about.
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He halted near the tavern door
Just as the moon shone through,
And there before the tavern door
Old Stonewall Jackson too.
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No, Mr. Stonewall, you have not seen
In all this wide world round
A more unhappy Union man
Than Johnny Reb has found.
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I knew you once in Mexico
And on a southern plain
I met again at Shiloh's hills,
And Chickamauga's plain.
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The shades of night were falling fast
As through the streets of town,
Old Dixie waved her starry flag
For those she's left behind.
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And the Yankees heard the bugles blow
And down the streets advanced
And then we heard a mournful sound
Which made the old flag dance.
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