Misc Traditional – Carry Me Back To Old Virginny (Guitar)

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There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow.

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There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.

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There's where this heart of mine, does long to go.

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Carry me back to old Virginny,

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There let me live till I wither and decay.

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Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,

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That's where this life of mine will pass away.

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There's where I labored so hard for my father

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day after day in the field of yellow corn

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No place on earth do I love more sincerely

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then old Virginny, the state where I was born,

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Carry me back to old Virginny;

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there let me live till I wither and decay.

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Long by the old, dismal swamp have I wandered;

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there's where this old life of mine will pass away.

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Father and mother have long gone before me,

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Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore.

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There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,

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And there we'll meet, and we'll never part no more.