My old
Virginia home
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1. It was on one winter day from my home I went away,
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far
away from friends and home I longed to roam.
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But tonight I'm lone and sad,
just a little homesick lad,
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and
I'm longing for my old Virginia home
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I'm a lad from old Virginia, bravely knocking my way back home,
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to that cabin home in the
mountains never more let me roam.
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I'm a lad from old Virginia and I'm coming, coming home,
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there I'll settle down forever in
my old Virginia home.
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2. Since I left that little shack how my mind has wandered back,
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how
mother often prayed for her lad.
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But from her I went astray,
and I know I've dearly paid,
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so
I'm coming back to mother and my dad.
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(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Carter
Family)