If you would listen to the lyrics, it's actually about the suffering of one impoverished man and his family during the Civil War rather than being a celebration of the Confederacy. It was written by a Canadian, and it is mostly an anti-war song.
Those were anti war years and look how they treated us? Kent state being the perfect example of how we always fail to notice the invisible prison walls that surround us all, every day of our lives.
Was it written by a canadian? I thought it was written by Levon Helm, a born and raised southerner from Arkansas. But what do I know, I think it's a great song, though.
I'm 72 tears old. When I went to a doctor's appointment yesterday morning, as I was leaving her exam room she said, "Oops, you forgot your cane!" I said, oh no, I can't forget Virgil! She looked at me blankly so I said that's my cane's name. Virgil. You know, as in Virgil Cane? Another blank stare. The Doctor is in her 40's and wasn't even a twinkle in her father's eye yet in 1971 when I was a 20-year-old singing along at the top of my lungs with Joan Baez on this song. She didn't get the reference. Ouch! A reminder that I'm old!
She probably didn’t even know who Joan Baez was. 71’ I was in 3rd grade and I remember all those singers n Vietnam, Bob Hope, Raquel Welch,Linda Lovelace, hula hoop, Kenny Fords 71’GTO, City spraying our neighborhood with DDT for mosquitos……….those were the good ole days for real!
When I was 16 and saw her on TV at the MLK March on D.C., 1963, Joan Baez was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was about 22 at the time and with some gimpy guy who turned out later to be Bob Dylan.
To me it's an anti-war song, performed by the Great Joan Baez. It doesn't stimulate sympathy for the South, but rather a sense that they had it coming given the destruction they rained on the North, to enslaved black people & wanting to fight for evil beliefs (slavery & dissolution of the Union). Great song with a cautionary message of being on the wrong side of history, like the South is today by supporting a creepy, orange clown as their white savior.
The Night We Drove Pederussia Down, when all the bells were ringing, The Night We Drove Pederussia Down, and all the people were singin'. pUTIN Khuilo, La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
…who was a Canadian, writing about an American Civil War song! I graduated from high school in the 70’s, this song is old hat to me and I just absolutely love this song.
I was in 11 th grade when this song came onto the radio. Takes me immediately back to 1971. Love the lyrics as well as the music. Tells a historic story.
I'm literally shocked and saddened while listening to and watching this, suddenly forced to realize just how utterly and like obviously horrendous modern music has devolved during the past twenty years or so, for too long too many people with too many eyes and brains focused upon dehumanizing phone screens, instead of learning to write lyrics and play musical instruments.
Hearing this just brings me back to when i was a teenager so long ago .brings tears to my eyes knowing we will never have an era of music like that again. Ànd people had soul back then.....😢😢😢😢😢
1971 I came back with spending the summer with my grandparents in okeechobee florida,and my friends said I was so much more calm and friendly when I came back,I wish I could have saved my friends life later in life,He responded only to us his friends and this was the best time of his life
I'm 65 years old and not till today have I realized how Beautiful she is 😮 but like all of us in the 70's I was in that mind set and was blind to the true Beauty all around me.
Thank you for understanding my comment, I was like just the rest numb to everything around me with what I had choose to pollute myself with. I'm thankful for the act of GOD that brought me out of that life😅
Now you know why ZZTop, Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt still go on tours and publish old and new songs. I still have 8 tracks and 78's from this period.
The Band. The original version written by Robbie Robertson. Check out The Band doing it at The Last Waltz. Nothing better and before Baez changed some of the words.
In today’s world,she would be attacked by the fake news and bs tv shows for being racist since she sung about Dixie. They would say terrible things about her and try to destroy her life.
@@SteveSmith-eb6zealso the song was written from the perspective of southerns that sacrificed and lost the war, it was meant to establish the tragedy in their lives and personal loss. It’s just a human experience song. Anyone who would listen to this and think it promotes slavery or white supremacy would be mistaken.
A few Northerners cry as well. Those warriors were and always will be brothers. This side of the world doesn't show all. The other side is just hidden from us but is there for the warriors to come together in peace. No matter what time and place the boys always wondered why the other side fought so well.
So many great women's voices of that era. Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Mary Travers, Judith Durham and so many more. They didn't use all the gimmicks of today. They could make great sounds in nightclubs as well as concerts.
I got to see her at a free concert at the Washington Monument in the District of Columbia. Seems that the fine ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) wouldn't let her play in Constitution Hall. She sure showed them.
I was 2 years old, but I can recall this song playing over the radio as I was older around 6 or 7ish. It's one of those songs that, with its melody, created core memories
Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train 'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive I took the train to Richmond that fell It was a time I remember, oh, so well The night they drove old Dixie down And all the bells were ringin' The night they drove old Dixie down And all the people were singin' They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... " Back with my wife in Tennessee And one day she said to me, "Virgil, Quick! Come see! There goes Robert E. Lee." Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood And I don't care if the money's no good Just take what you need and leave the rest But they should never have taken the very best Like my father before me, I'm a working man And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave But a yankee laid him in his grave I swear by the blood below my feet You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat
First verse 'Til STONEMAN'S Cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. ----- General George Stoneman Jr. Cavalry raids against Confederate supplies and Railroads. Joan song the sung from memory and missed the line. (she hadn't read the lyrics before recording) She also turned Robert E. Lee into the Riverboat--AT least you removed the "The". ;)
@@tomray8765 I know; that always bugged me, too. Then I found out both you and i got another line wrong. "By May the 10th, Richmond had fell". I always thought we took the train also....
Richmond was a rail hub--- there were other railroads into it also. anyway, I was reading the original writer's lyrics. Joan hadn't seen them before She did her recording--- she just listened to it.@@sallymiller7310
No computers, auto tune, lyp syncing, or anything else, just pure raw talent, one of the Great ones from back in the day, 60's and 70's man all the way, not to mention the 50's, Groovy.,......!!!!!
@@carlosreal4625 the original single was recorded under Vanguard records in 1971, produced (mix engineered) by Norbert Putnam. The audio in this video is that very recording (you can look up the single for yourself on any platform), played over a video (possibly for a tv promo/music video). It’s lip synched.
Joan, our sweetheart. It’s been a privilege, all over the years. I never forgotten your visit to Heraklion in 1974. Thanks for the posting.❤❤❤, Georgios, Crete 🇬🇷✝️🇬🇧
Beautiful song, beautiful guitar, beautiful woman, beautiful voice…what’s not to like? I remember this in the early 70’s when it came out in the UK, love it to this day ✌️
Robbie Robertson (a Canadian) wrote it after visiting Levon Helm's family in Arkansas, and spending some time talking to Levon's dad. He didn't mean for it to be political, but wanted to write about the devastation people felt after the war. Today the song have become controversial, I think that is shame, it just illustrates how devasting war and the aftermath of war is, no matter what side you were on. I think Joan's version misconcrued some of the original meaning. That is at least the way some member's of The Band took it.@@markberryhill2715
First Nations Canadian at that. Funny how some people want to vilify this song as pro slavery or confederacy. Then Others adopted it as a southern anthem to uphold some ideologies. Obviously both are wrong about the meaning and intentions of the song. The song was just written from the perspective of a southern who was dealing with loss and experiencing despair. It’s a human experience song.
Welp folks, it’s been five years sense this cover was uploaded to RUclips here, and I was there for the filming. Even more stunning in person. Still get goosebumps watching now!
I love this song 🎵 ❤️, Joan Baez reminds me of that good old fashioned folk singing🎉🎉. She always was telling a story through her music 🎶 she and it's always unique and authentic 🎉🎉
Reading the comments, many people seem to be surprised that a half-First-Nations, half-Jewish Canadian in a "hippy" band would write such a powerful song about the Confederacy, and That Joan Baez would later perform it as one of her signature pieces. Those people need a history lesson. This was the early 1970's... The Vietnam war was still raging, American bombs were still falling on North Vietnamese civilians and poor subsistence farmers, and drafted American servicemen were still dying for a cause they didn't understand and had no control over. Anyone who dared to criticize the U.S. military actions was labelled a radical, a communist, and anti-American (today, the word "woke" would added to the list of insults). Radio stations refused to play songs and TV stations refused to air programs that were openly critical of the war in Vietnam in order to avoid controversy and to avoid upsetting half of their listeners and viewers. Singing a song telling the viewpoint of a young Vietnamese farmer would have been downright heretical. Artistic protests had to get creative. The brilliant television comedy "M*A*S*H" was a thinly veiled critique of the Vietnam War and on several occasions showed us the horror inflicted by both sides on children and civilians and even gave us empathy for soldiers fighting for the "enemy". Nobody referred to that show as being either anti-war or pro-communist... it was a just group of people trying to do their best in a situation they had no control over. That silly sit-com completely changed people's perspective on the then-current war in a way that people born after 1970 will never understand. This song forces us to stop thinking about war as being between presidents and generals, policies and ideologies, between rich slave owners and abolitionists, and to stop and think about what war actually does to the poor folks at the bottom of the ladder who have no say or stake in the matter. It's not pro-Confederacy, it's anti-war. A more modern parallel would be a peasant farmer in 1944 Germany or in 1970 North Vietnam or in 2004 Afghanistan who witnessed his family and tiny plot of land obliterated in a conflict that they had no say in. Our immediate, instinctual response would be to say "Serves 'em right!". This anti-war song forces us to confront that bias by looking through the eyes of Virgil Kane, a teenager from a poor Tennessee family who just wanted nothing more than to be left alone to work his land like his father before him. Oh, and I'm Canadian by the way... sometimes it takes an outsider to see the whole picture within.
Ich liebe diesen Song so übel. Und das mit 35. Die alten Hits sind immernoch die waren Hits. Hätte ich in der Zeit gelebt wäre ich auch ein wenig in sie verknallt gewesen.❤❤
My wife and I were lucky enough to see Joan at a number of venues from the early 1960s including Greenwich Village NYC where we lived, mostly bare-foot, onwards ranging from the grand Carnegie Hall, NYC to a rundown going out of business concert venue dump in a tired Chicago suburban shopping mall, on a revolving stage which Joan bravely dealt with and, like us, found mildly humourous but aggravating, to a fairly nice, cozy downtown Chicago theatre where they also served nasty dinners! No matter where, that gorgeous, glorious, stirring clear voice was GREAT! So glad we heard her live, with appreciative, adoring audiences. Lifetime memories!
I had the chance to see Joan Baez in concert in Stourbridge (England) in 1965 but didn't buy a ticket! I have regretted it ever since & still now at 74 years old! America has given the world so many singers, other musicians, writers, actors, comedians etc. Thank you, America!!
ahh like confederate movies and their grey extreme uniforms and rebel Dixie Konnfederate flags, and anything with a Rebel 1860 - 1866 Yell.''' N.B.B.- Also ahh idol worship all their confederate illegal Statues.
My parents were right wingers even in their 20s. But they loved Joan Baez. They took me to see her when I was 10 years old in Long Beach California. 1970. Love that as a code word for a credit card re first concert, I get to say, “Joan Baez.” Sorry you missed her. I have been a devotee ever since. Am almost 64 now.
it's only now that I'm taking such heartfelt appreciation for Joan Baez, perhaps because i was following a different music genre with genesis deep purple led zep but in 1971 i was in Gibraltar age 16 1/2 at HMS ROOKE royal navy shore base and in the City Tavern pub by the piazza we were slamming on American Pie and Heart of Gold on the Juke Box and Heavy Rock back at base. Now age 69 in September 23 I'm looking back with reflection and the heavy rock is once in a manic moon but when I play Joan Baez here on the tube I just lay here with such heartfelt love and contentment at everything and tears just stream down my cheeks with such loving emotions. Never had that in the 70s but maybe the generation behind me did ? But I listened to Song for David last night and was so moved I thought the voice of Joan could easily be the voice of an Angel, just so beautiful and if ever I had a choice of songs to listen to in my final days it would be Joan's. I'm wondering if anyone else here has experienced similar ? Have a blessed week
@@gib59er56 Writing a song from some story you heard is not unusual. Only the lyrics and melody go to a songwriter's credit. Many songs were written from hearing someone's story (Puff the Magic Dragon for example) and wouldn't mean he/she was ripping someone off. If, as Helm has stated, that Helm had actually contributed to the actual lyrics, it would bre a different story.
This song reminds me of my wife. It was her favorite song before she lost battling cancer, I wish I could change the hands of time, I never missed a moment with her, life could be so unfair most times but sometimes I wonder why bad things always happen to good people,
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If you would listen to the lyrics, it's actually about the suffering of one impoverished man and his family during the Civil War rather than being a celebration of the Confederacy. It was written by a Canadian, and it is mostly an anti-war song.
Those were anti war years and look how they treated us? Kent state being the perfect example of how we always fail to notice the invisible prison walls that surround us all, every day of our lives.
Was it written by a canadian? I thought it was written by Levon Helm, a born and raised southerner from Arkansas. But what do I know, I think it's a great song, though.
He just hated losing his brother.
I'm 72 tears old. When I went to a doctor's appointment yesterday morning, as I was leaving her exam room she said, "Oops, you forgot your cane!" I said, oh no, I can't forget Virgil! She looked at me blankly so I said that's my cane's name. Virgil. You know, as in Virgil Cane? Another blank stare.
The Doctor is in her 40's and wasn't even a twinkle in her father's eye yet in 1971 when I was a 20-year-old singing along at the top of my lungs with Joan Baez on this song. She didn't get the reference. Ouch! A reminder that I'm old!
Hey , man I'm 70 years old , I understand , I'm with you , bye ,moe
She probably didn’t even know who Joan Baez was. 71’ I was in 3rd grade and I remember all those singers n Vietnam, Bob Hope, Raquel Welch,Linda Lovelace, hula hoop, Kenny Fords 71’GTO, City spraying our neighborhood with DDT for mosquitos……….those were the good ole days for real!
You're lucky you remember "Virgil Cane. You and I lived through a good time with great artists and great tunes!
It has meaning for you. That’s what matters.
80 yrs. Here.
E. TN!
Good bless You Madame Have the reason to be touched by the song. ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
The hair on my arms stand straight up EVERY time I hear this masterpiece.
The same happens to me.
When I was 16 and saw her on TV at the MLK March on D.C., 1963, Joan Baez was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen. She was about 22 at the time and with some gimpy guy who turned out later to be Bob Dylan.
WE WERE LUCKY TO LIVE IN SUCH A GOOD ERA,NEVER TO BE REPEATED.
Absolutely bro!
I doubt Joan would agree with that. Our hopes lie with our children. The future.
Plato said something similar, ya know...
Se acabó
The best , so miss it !
Folks from the South cry when they listen to this masterpiece.
Not sure this song would get any airplay today because of all the politically correct woke nonsense. Great song.
To me it's an anti-war song, performed by the Great Joan Baez. It doesn't stimulate sympathy for the South, but rather a sense that they had it coming given the destruction they rained on the North, to enslaved black people & wanting to fight for evil beliefs (slavery & dissolution of the Union). Great song with a cautionary message of being on the wrong side of history, like the South is today by supporting a creepy, orange clown as their white savior.
Me too and I’m from IL!
Very bad war it was
@@milesbrown8016 the south was - over confident, as were the Nazi's and now Israel military.''
The Night We Drove Pederussia Down, when all the bells were ringing,
The Night We Drove Pederussia Down, and all the people were singin'. pUTIN Khuilo,
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
Written by the late great Robbie Robertson , she delivers a version that still sounds great 52 years later ...
…who was a Canadian, writing about an American Civil War song! I graduated from high school in the 70’s, this song is old hat to me and I just absolutely love this song.
Better versoin on "before the flood"
Back when songs told real stories and the singers had real talent.
Look into Aesop Rock. Recommend 'Agressive Steven' or 'Ruby 81' to hear incredible (true) storytelling. Best I've ever heard.
Ha my grandsons name is hendrix so i hope the beat goes on ha krank it up 4 a fossile like me
IKR, just breakout and start singing a true ballardeer
Spot on
and still do able at that
She did that song so fantastic and we couldn't have grown up in a better time. The music of the 60' 70' and 80' was the best Happy to have lived it
You got that right!
Amen
so true!!
Americas heritage rests with these great artists
......and children Born today will be saying the same thing when they get old .
I was in 11 th grade when this song came onto the radio. Takes me immediately back to 1971. Love the lyrics as well as the music. Tells a historic story.
Me too class of 72
Go to "The Last Waltz" and watch the Band's original version.
That smile, just before the Chorus, is tantalizing!
She is so beautiful in so many ways.
1971 … I was Seven Years Old … Now I’m Listening in 2023 … Sweet ❤️❤️❤️👍🦅
Ha 4561 s my number i hav a grandson hendrix so yup krank it up n smile
Ha i was 10 i hav a grandson hedrix time is the never gets caught
I'm literally shocked and saddened while listening to and watching this, suddenly forced to realize just how utterly and like obviously horrendous modern music has devolved during the past twenty years or so, for too long too many people with too many eyes and brains focused upon dehumanizing phone screens, instead of learning to write lyrics and play musical instruments.
You don't have to like all of it
There's still good music in the world
Shut up man there’s great music
Or as the horror of modern warfare.
Joan Baez was a favorite folk singer of mine. Today, it's all about the money.
Every song from this lady through the years note perfect,truly a very special talent..thank you for all the music.good health be yours
This never gets old.
....nor does she!
Hearing this just brings me back to when i was a teenager so long ago .brings tears to my eyes knowing we will never have an era of music like that again. Ànd people had soul back then.....😢😢😢😢😢
Wir hatten diese schöne Zeit. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland
This 1969 song reached its apex the same year American Pie came out. So many great songs flowed like water in '71.
1971 I came back with spending the summer with my grandparents in okeechobee florida,and my friends said I was so much more calm and friendly when I came back,I wish I could have saved my friends life later in life,He responded only to us his friends and this was the best time of his life
I'm 65 years old and not till today have I realized how Beautiful she is 😮 but like all of us in the 70's I was in that mind set and was blind to the true Beauty all around me.
Thank you for understanding my comment, I was like just the rest numb to everything around me with what I had choose to pollute myself with. I'm thankful for the act of GOD that brought me out of that life😅
"Beauty on Beautiful" these are my word. Thank you so much Joanne 💝💖💞
@@JohnnySanchez-fc1hf ahh turned 65 on 28th January 2024.- Born on Gwavas Sheep Station in 1959.
@@seanodwyer4322 turned 64 on 27th January, happy belated birthday Johnny, Jack from Montreal
I'm 64 and your comment touched me.
Miss Baez was so under rated. Such a beautiful voice. I think Arlo broke her spirit and heart. A very beautiful women and talent.
Joan was so talented, I used to have the biggest crush on her. Of course I would have her sing me home. I miss this Ole folk music bless her heart
Songs of my generation. The best never duplicated 😊
Agree 4561s my number i hav a grandson hendrix so the beat goes on
Songs, cars and dances!
This is a cover song - duplicated
Beautiful Joan, with a beautiful, tender rendition of this moving song.
one of the greatest voices of all time.
Forgot how much I loved this song. Wow. I kind'a feel ashamed for forgetting.
Best version of this song that’s ever been, and ever will be in my opinion. Such passion in the way it was delivered.. What a legend!
Joan Baez ist nicht nur mit einer wunderbaren stimme und Talent gesegnet, sondern auch mit inneren und äußeren Schönheit. Sehr selten sowas......
This was the year I met my future wife. 1971. We went on to have five children.
I loved the Band's version of this song.
Especially at "The Last Waltz". The definitive version.
Joan Baez was legendary to some, unknown to many. Special times, special times.
The queen of folk will remain forever!
Now you know why ZZTop, Rolling Stones, Linda Ronstadt still go on tours and publish old and new songs. I still have 8 tracks and 78's from this period.
She was a perfect fit for this song I couldn't imagine anyone doing it better
The Band. The original version written by Robbie Robertson. Check out The Band doing it at The Last Waltz. Nothing better and before Baez changed some of the words.
Back in the days when you could tell truthful stories without being labeled.
In today’s world,she would be attacked by the fake news and bs tv shows for being racist since she sung about Dixie. They would say terrible things about her and try to destroy her life.
❤
Well stated !
@@SteveSmith-eb6zewell she didn’t write this, and she’s Mexican so I doubt it lol, but I get what you are saying.
@@SteveSmith-eb6zealso the song was written from the perspective of southerns that sacrificed and lost the war, it was meant to establish the tragedy in their lives and personal loss. It’s just a human experience song. Anyone who would listen to this and think it promotes slavery or white supremacy would be mistaken.
A few Northerners cry as well.
Those warriors were and always will be brothers.
This side of the world doesn't show all.
The other side is just hidden from us but is there for the warriors to come together in peace.
No matter what time and place the boys always wondered why the other side fought so well.
So many great women's voices of that era. Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Mary Travers, Judith Durham and so many more. They didn't use all the gimmicks of today. They could make great sounds in nightclubs as well as concerts.
Beautiful song, written by Robbie Robertson of The Band. Extraordinary vocal by Joan Baez.
They’re certain songs that give you chills. This will forever be one historically.
I was lucky enough to see Joan Baez in concert 1971- what an amazing song and what a beautiful singer💕💕
2023 oh yeah baby
You make me jealous .... 1971 i was -9 years old 😂
@@dg3x3kb78 but I’m so much older than you now🤣
I got to see her at a free concert at the Washington Monument in the District of Columbia. Seems that the fine ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) wouldn't let her play in Constitution Hall. She sure showed them.
This one is a playback show.
I was 2 years old, but I can recall this song playing over the radio as I was older around 6 or 7ish. It's one of those songs that, with its melody, created core memories
Virgil Caine is my name and I drove on the Danville train
'til so much cavalry came and tore up the tracks again
In the winter of '65, we were hungry, just barely alive
I took the train to Richmond that fell
It was a time I remember, oh, so well
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the bells were ringin'
The night they drove old Dixie down
And all the people were singin'
They went, "Na, na, na, na, na, na, .... "
Back with my wife in Tennessee
And one day she said to me,
"Virgil, Quick! Come see!
There goes Robert E. Lee."
Now I don't mind, I'm chopping wood
And I don't care if the money's no good
Just take what you need and leave the rest
But they should never have taken the very best
Like my father before me, I'm a working man
And like my brother before me, I took a rebel stand
Oh, he was just 18, proud and brave
But a yankee laid him in his grave
I swear by the blood below my feet
You can't raise a Cane back up when he's in defeat
First verse 'Til STONEMAN'S Cavalry came and tore up the tracks again. ----- General George Stoneman Jr. Cavalry raids against Confederate supplies and Railroads. Joan song the sung from memory and missed the line. (she hadn't read the lyrics before recording) She also turned Robert E. Lee into the Riverboat--AT least you removed the "The". ;)
@@tomray8765 I know; that always bugged me, too. Then I found out both you and i got another line wrong. "By May the 10th, Richmond had fell". I always thought we took the train also....
Richmond was a rail hub--- there were other railroads into it also. anyway, I was reading the original writer's lyrics. Joan hadn't seen them before She did her recording--- she just listened to it.@@sallymiller7310
In the winter of 65 we were hungry - just barely alive
By May 10th Richmond had fell - it's a time I remember oh so well
This is my favorite version. The backup singers sound amazing with Joan's vocals.
Truth Indeed AMEN 🙏
Same here. I heard this version before the others, but this one has remained my favorite. Love her voice.
Deary me better than the band 😂
Better than Levon Helm? No Also, it’s “Till Stoneman’s Calvary came” not, So Much Calvary Came.
My last comment was meant as a reply for another comment, my bad
Congratulations to Joan Baze, for being induced into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This is my all-time favorite folksong.
Better that she was inducted into the Folk Music Hall of Fame. Gordon Lightfoot and others would be there as well.
The Bands version with Levon singing is so much better. Joan Baez version is a cover.
I love the chord structure
Baze?
Thank You
No computers, auto tune, lyp syncing, or anything else, just pure raw talent, one of the Great ones from back in the day, 60's and 70's man all the way, not to mention the 50's, Groovy.,......!!!!!
This is absolutely lip synched. It's the original hit recording on top of a silent video. I wish it wasn't but it is.
@@suzim9458prove it ! 😂
@@carlosreal4625 the original single was recorded under Vanguard records in 1971, produced (mix engineered) by Norbert Putnam. The audio in this video is that very recording (you can look up the single for yourself on any platform), played over a video (possibly for a tv promo/music video). It’s lip synched.
@@carlosreal4625 your ears should be the only proof you need. If you know the studio recording, you know that this is the same audio.
@@jacobskinner3522 you probably right I’m not a big music guy I’ll take you word I just like the track and video 👍
Joan, our sweetheart. It’s been a privilege, all over the years. I never forgotten your visit to Heraklion in 1974. Thanks for the posting.❤❤❤, Georgios, Crete 🇬🇷✝️🇬🇧
I still haven't recovered from this song. Not that I don't listen to other genres but this song put me on a lifelong track of love for folk.
What a beautiful voice and song Joan Baez.
❤
I've listened and watched this video many times and it's one of my all time favorites, the audience just don't get it,
Beautiful song, beautiful guitar, beautiful woman, beautiful voice…what’s not to like? I remember this in the early 70’s when it came out in the UK, love it to this day ✌️
As a southerner it was hard to take,but I loved the song nonetheless. Lol
ya, right
Robbie Robertson (a Canadian) wrote it after visiting Levon Helm's family in Arkansas, and spending some time talking to Levon's dad. He didn't mean for it to be political, but wanted to write about the devastation people felt after the war.
Today the song have become controversial, I think that is shame, it just illustrates how devasting war and the aftermath of war is, no matter what side you were on. I think Joan's version misconcrued some of the original meaning. That is at least the way some member's of The Band took it.@@markberryhill2715
The only thing ( very,very minor ) not to like,is her getting some of the lyrics wrong in the first verse
It was originally "Till [George] Stoneman's cavalry came and..."
Written by a Canadian -Robbie Robertson. He was able to write about the "South" in ways no American was allowed to.
First Nations Canadian at that. Funny how some people want to vilify this song as pro slavery or confederacy. Then Others adopted it as a southern anthem to uphold some ideologies. Obviously both are wrong about the meaning and intentions of the song. The song was just written from the perspective of a southern who was dealing with loss and experiencing despair. It’s a human experience song.
I never heard anybody on the left or right say this song is controversial. It’s about war and the human condition.
@@tony.bickert unfortunately some people are very surface level and want to create conflicts where none are there to be had.
Yes most of us grew up in the best of America
This song is in the movie " 3 billboards putside ebbing moussurri " very apt for the movie
I cannot believe I am so old to hear Joan Baez this song...once again.
Welp folks, it’s been five years sense this cover was uploaded to RUclips here, and I was there for the filming. Even more stunning in person. Still get goosebumps watching now!
I love this song 🎵 ❤️, Joan Baez reminds me of that good old fashioned folk singing🎉🎉. She always was telling a story through her music 🎶 she and it's always unique and authentic 🎉🎉
Such a beautiful song ❤
This is so amazingly beautiful! I like it much more than the German version❤ I am born 1991 and still love it soooo...
Wonderful rendition - I can't wait to visit the southern states of the good old US of A!
Wow, great song sung by GREAT SINGER! John P.😊
Amazing how respectful the crowd is compared to today!
Liberals Hate like Criminals today.
Democrats used to call me the “N” word. Now they want to destroy my family and pervert my children.
Back when people knew how to dress and had more manners than todays crowd ....
My youth just arrived again ,GREAT ❤
My name is Virgil and my patient told me of this song. So here I am. ✌️
My 2nd name is Virgil too.. and im here too..
God Bless us for a better future and no war
I like the sound of this Lady's voice.
Watching Kelly and Mark this morning with Joan Baez as a guest , brought me here ! Great song , Great music from the 70,s !
the good old days with quality music
Reading the comments, many people seem to be surprised that a half-First-Nations, half-Jewish Canadian in a "hippy" band would write such a powerful song about the Confederacy, and That Joan Baez would later perform it as one of her signature pieces. Those people need a history lesson.
This was the early 1970's... The Vietnam war was still raging, American bombs were still falling on North Vietnamese civilians and poor subsistence farmers, and drafted American servicemen were still dying for a cause they didn't understand and had no control over.
Anyone who dared to criticize the U.S. military actions was labelled a radical, a communist, and anti-American (today, the word "woke" would added to the list of insults). Radio stations refused to play songs and TV stations refused to air programs that were openly critical of the war in Vietnam in order to avoid controversy and to avoid upsetting half of their listeners and viewers. Singing a song telling the viewpoint of a young Vietnamese farmer would have been downright heretical. Artistic protests had to get creative.
The brilliant television comedy "M*A*S*H" was a thinly veiled critique of the Vietnam War and on several occasions showed us the horror inflicted by both sides on children and civilians and even gave us empathy for soldiers fighting for the "enemy". Nobody referred to that show as being either anti-war or pro-communist... it was a just group of people trying to do their best in a situation they had no control over. That silly sit-com completely changed people's perspective on the then-current war in a way that people born after 1970 will never understand.
This song forces us to stop thinking about war as being between presidents and generals, policies and ideologies, between rich slave owners and abolitionists, and to stop and think about what war actually does to the poor folks at the bottom of the ladder who have no say or stake in the matter. It's not pro-Confederacy, it's anti-war.
A more modern parallel would be a peasant farmer in 1944 Germany or in 1970 North Vietnam or in 2004 Afghanistan who witnessed his family and tiny plot of land obliterated in a conflict that they had no say in. Our immediate, instinctual response would be to say "Serves 'em right!". This anti-war song forces us to confront that bias by looking through the eyes of Virgil Kane, a teenager from a poor Tennessee family who just wanted nothing more than to be left alone to work his land like his father before him.
Oh, and I'm Canadian by the way... sometimes it takes an outsider to see the whole picture within.
Us Yankees cry to this equally.
A beautiful gifted voice that reflected the times❤
This is without a doubt the finest version of this song,Joan Baez is superb singing this beautiful song written by Robbie Robertson (RIP) of The Band
I would take the Band’s version over this version any day. Baez does a good job, but Helm sings it better.
@@ericdailey8587agree. Baez’s voice renders the song into a neutered nut on a Union surgeon’s operating table.
This version is more hit material than the original got this version when it came out big hit in the UK best times of my life 😊😊😊
Hilarious!!! While an awesome version, gimme a break. Levon and the boys had this down pretty tight. After all, Robbie wrote it for him.
@@ericdailey8587Yes. Hearing Baez refer to herself as Virgil breaks mood of the song completely.
Magnificent performance, immortal lyrics of America's darkest period
The Old Dixie - best of all worlds. Gone with the wind… 😢
The South will rise again.
@@rosanneshinkle4133 Only if Black folk help run it.
@@nathanielhellerstein5871 We could work that,these black folks are as Southern as anybody.
Every time I drive through Danville, VA, I have to sing this song.
NN be full allert too "Yankkee sniper's and Stonemans Calvary on that road.'
I am not from the South, and I do cry...
TN. PROUD!!!
One of the great voices and artists of our times...
She sure is.
Where has the last 52 years gone dam😎✌️🖤
i'm scottish and have loved song since 1971
Ich liebe diesen Song so übel. Und das mit 35. Die alten Hits sind immernoch die waren Hits. Hätte ich in der Zeit gelebt wäre ich auch ein wenig in sie verknallt gewesen.❤❤
So epic--brings back sweet memories!! Couldn't record/play this song today. That's life in the land of the free.
A very talented unpretentious and gifted lovely lady. I truly love this era of all of the performing arts especially the music.
Geeee, 71, I was starting out on pubs and discos. Now, I still loves these sounds
My wife and I were lucky enough to see Joan at a number of venues from the early 1960s including Greenwich Village NYC where we lived, mostly bare-foot, onwards ranging from the grand Carnegie Hall, NYC to a rundown going out of business concert venue dump in a tired Chicago suburban shopping mall, on a revolving stage which Joan bravely dealt with and, like us, found mildly humourous but aggravating, to a fairly nice, cozy downtown Chicago theatre where they also served nasty dinners! No matter where, that gorgeous, glorious, stirring clear voice was GREAT! So glad we heard her live, with appreciative, adoring audiences. Lifetime memories!
I had the chance to see Joan Baez in concert in Stourbridge (England) in 1965 but didn't buy a ticket! I have regretted it ever since & still now at 74 years old! America has given the world so many singers, other musicians, writers, actors, comedians etc. Thank you, America!!
I am 60 and totally agree with you my friend. Tony in Portsmouth England.
ahh like confederate movies and their grey extreme uniforms and rebel Dixie Konnfederate flags, and anything with a Rebel 1860 - 1866 Yell.''' N.B.B.- Also ahh idol worship all their confederate illegal Statues.
@@TonyWeavingshe can hold a note on your a## the very best Folk Ballard singer
My parents were right wingers even in their 20s. But they loved Joan Baez. They took me to see her when I was 10 years old in Long Beach California. 1970. Love that as a code word for a credit card re first concert, I get to say, “Joan Baez.” Sorry you missed her. I have been a devotee ever since. Am almost 64 now.
Just love her from Denmark
Im from Brooklyn NY. Why do I cry every time I hear this song?
it's only now that I'm taking such heartfelt appreciation for Joan Baez, perhaps because i was following a different music genre with genesis deep purple led zep but in 1971 i was in Gibraltar age 16 1/2 at HMS ROOKE royal navy shore base and in the City Tavern pub by the piazza we were slamming on American Pie and Heart of Gold on the Juke Box and Heavy Rock back at base. Now age 69 in September 23 I'm looking back with reflection and the heavy rock is once in a manic moon but when I play Joan Baez here on the tube I just lay here with such heartfelt love and contentment at everything and tears just stream down my cheeks with such loving emotions. Never had that in the 70s but maybe the generation behind me did ? But I listened to Song for David last night and was so moved I thought the voice of Joan could easily be the voice of an Angel, just so beautiful and if ever I had a choice of songs to listen to in my final days it would be Joan's. I'm wondering if anyone else here has experienced similar ? Have a blessed week
Listen to her 'sad eyed lady of the lowlands' long long long by george harrison is based on it. She is all round magnificent
I could never get tired of listening to her I've heard this song from many different people but man she just lays it down ..man... nothing but❤❤❤❤❤
Bet the others learned the lyrics though.
Well said.
I remember seeing this on TV when I was just a kid.
I'll admit, it's not my favourite, it was played to death in the U.K. but what a wonderful performance.
Love listening to this Baez classic
A moment of silence today for Robbie Robertson.
Yes
The Immortal J. Robbie Robertson.
A Canadian who wrote this wonderful song about our civil war.
@@gib59er56 Writing a song from some story you heard is not unusual. Only the lyrics and melody go to a songwriter's credit. Many songs were written from hearing someone's story (Puff the Magic Dragon for example) and wouldn't mean he/she was ripping someone off. If, as Helm has stated, that Helm had actually contributed to the actual lyrics, it would bre a different story.
Well, gib, you're 100 percent wrong about everything you wrote. Please delete. Thank you.
Awesome song how time flies..she’s 83 now wow
A classic folk singer .
This song reminds me of my wife. It was her favorite song before she lost battling cancer, I wish I could change the hands of time, I never missed a moment with her, life could be so unfair most times but sometimes I wonder why bad things always happen to good people,
Great song as a yankee my heart is Tenn and Va with these brave men
Broken Confederates = ''' God's chosen prophet's.
Great folk song by a great folk artist. Congratulations Joan in your induction into the Rick and roll hall of fame.
Beautiful voice and i still love this song.
Loved her voice and this old song! This is about the reconstruction period after the war! The woke people today won't understand it at all!
Like her or love her, Joan was a gifted artist. She touched a lot of people with her music.
The sad thing is that most young people don't understand the meaning of the words.
Truth
She screwed up the lyrics...
Most of them can't even spell Civil War
It's amazing we have substituted hate for love