OLD VIRGINNY

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Song Title
OLD VIRGINNY
Writers
Laine
Publisher
HAMPSHIRE HOUSE PUBLISHING CORP. (ASCAP)
% Publisher Controls
100%
Territory Controlled
WORLD
Themes/Keywords
Birds, Corn, Cotton, Fields, Folks, Free, Gone, Happy, Sorrow
Lyrics
Carry me back to Old Virginny,
There’s where the cotton and the corn and ‘taters grow,
There’s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime,
There’s where the old folks are longing to go.
There’s where I labored so hard all my lifetime,
Day after day in the field of yellow corn,
No place on earth do I love more sincerely,
Than Old Virginny, the state where I was born.

Carry me back to Old Virginny,
There, let me live till I wither and decay,
Long by the old dismal swamp have a wandered,
There’s where this old one’s life will pass away.
My friends and my folks have long gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore,
There we’ll be happy and free from all sorrow,
There’s where we’ll meet and we’ll never part no more.

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