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Ol’ Virginia
Lyrics
© 2006, Bob Zentz
Music by James Bland
Chorus:
Carry me back to ol’ Virginia
That's where the peanuts, cotton, corn and taters grow
That's where the cardinal sings sweet in the springtime
That's where this weary traveler’s heart does long to
go
1.
Though years I’ve traveled around this big country
From north to south, from the east unto the west
No place on earth do I miss more sincerely
Than ol’ Virginia, the state that I love best
(chorus)
2. Fiddle and banjo sing high in
the mountains
A gospel tune echoes down the “Crooked Road”
A blues guitar warbles lonesome through the Piedmont
Sounds of Virginia, the music I have known
(chorus)
3. Carry me back to the land of my
childhood
State that shall always be “home sweet home” to me
There
let me rest in the shade of the dogwood
Dear ol’ Virginia, from the mountains to the sea (chorus)
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