The Night They Drove Ol' Dixie Down

[Brad De Long]

>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>Back with my wife in Tennessee, When one day she called to me,
>>"Virgil, quick, come see, there goes Robert E. Lee!"
>>Now I don't mind choppin' wood, and I don't care if the money's no good.
>>Ya take what ya need and ya leave the rest,
>>But they should never have taken the very best.
>
>Does this mean we're supposed to get all throat-lumpy about the head 
>general of the CSA?

I thought it was "there goes *the* Robert E. Lee," and that the point 
was that the only thing to make life less boring and drudge-filled 
was to watch a steamboat going by...

But I am prone to overinterpret song lyrics, having once found a deep 
meaning in "memory is an elephant, a-playing in the band..."

Brad DeLong