Joan Chandos Báez (Staten Island, Nueva York, 9 de enero de 1941), Joan Baez, cantante estadounidense de música folk, conocida como "La reina de la canción protesta". Caracterizada por una voz potente, aguda, próxima a la de una soprano, y con un vibrato controlado para potenciar la dramatización de las letras de las canciones, Joan Baez es la máxima figura de la canción protesta surgida en los años sesenta, al calor de la Guerra de Vietnam. Su repertorio, no obstante, abarca también lo puramente tradicional, el country y el pop-rock.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
THE NIGHT THEY DROVE OLD DIXIE DOWN Joan Baez Ear-transcribed by Matteo Scarinzi
Intro CC
AmC | FAm | Virgil Cain is my name and I drove on the Danville train CAm | FAm | Till Stoneman's cavalry came and tore up the tracks again FC | AmF | In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive AmF | CAm | D | I drove a train to Richmond, Nefelle. It was a time I remember very well
CAmF | CAm | The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the bells were ringin' CAmF | CAm | The night they drove old Dixie down, and all the people were singin', (they went) CAm | DF | C | C intro' run | "Naa na-na naa na-na, na-naa na-naa na-naa naa na-naa na-na-naa"
Back with my wife in Tennessee, one day she said to me "Virgil, quick come see, there goes the Robert E Lee." Now. I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good You take what you need and you leave the rest, but they should never have taken the very best.
chorus
Like my father before me, I'm a workin' man Like my brother above me, I took a rebel stand He was eighteen, proud and brave, but a Yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood beneath my feet, you can't raise a Cain back up when he's in defeat.