The Carter Family – My Clinch Mountain Home (Guitar)

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Recorded in 1935 by the original Carter Family [Intro] G [Verse 1]
     G 
Far away on a hill   to a sunny mountain side

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

         D7             G
From the sunny mountain side
[Verse 2]
    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

            D7           G
To think of you so far apart
[Chorus]
         C              G             D7                 G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home

         C              G             D7              G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my old mountain home
[Instrumental] G C G D7 G [Verse 3]
  G
I fold my arms around her leaned her head upon my breast

  C                                                  G
I told her I would wed her when I came back from the west

      D7                  G
At my old Clinch mountain home
[Verse 4]
   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

       D7             G
On the sunny mountain side
[Chorus]
         C              G             D7                 G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home

         C              G             D7              G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my old mountain home
[Instrumental] G C G D7 G [Verse 5]
   G
My mother's old and feeble my father's getting gray

    C                                      G
I'm going back to Virginia and I expect to stay

      D7                  G
At my old Clinch mountain home
[Chorus]
         C              G             D7                 G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home

         C              G             D7              G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my old mountain home