The Carter Family – My Clinch Mountain Home (Guitar)

Capo 4
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Chords

    G
        Far away on the hill on a sunny mountain side,

                    C                                                         G
        many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I,

                        D                       G
        from the sunny mountain side.

                  G
        She clung to me and trembled when I told her we must part,

                 C                                                                     G
        she said don't go my darling, it almost breaks my heart

                          D                G
        to think of you so far apart.

                      C                   G                   D                               G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.

                      C                   G                   D                          G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.

    D G D G C G     D                           G
                            Oh, my mountain home.

           G
        I fold my arms around her, lean her head upon my breast,

           C                                                                                  G
        I told her I would wed her when I come back from the West,

                   D                               G
        at my old Clinch Mountain home.

                    G
        In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away,

                   C                                                                 G
        in the other one my sweetheart I'm thinking of today,

                     D                       G
        on the sunny mountain side.

                      C                   G                   D                               G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.

                      C                   G                   D                          G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.

    D G D G C G     D                           G
                            Oh, my mountain home.

                 G
        My mother's old and feeble, my father's getting gray,

                C                                                          G
        I'm going back to Virginie, and I expect to stay

                   D                               G
        at my old Clinch Mountain home.

                      C                   G                   D                               G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.

                      C                   G                   D                          G
    Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.

    D G D G C G     D                           G
                            Oh, my mountain home.