My Clinch Mountain Home chords by The Carter Family

Chords with lyrics

The Carter Family My Clinch Mountain Home


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbChrk8Vs64 at 39:01

Recorded in 1935 by the original Carter Family

Intro:
G+G

Verse 1:
   G+G
Far away on a hill  to a sunny mountain side
   C majorC                    G+G
Many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I
     D7D7       G+G
From the sunny mountain side

Verse 2:
  G+G
She clung to me and trembled, when I told her we must part
  C majorC                      G+G
She said don't go my darling it almost breaks my heart
      D7D7      G+G
To think of you so far apart

Chorus:
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7         G+G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7       G+G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my old mountain home

Instrumental:
G+G  C majorC G+G D7D7 G+G

Verse 3:
 G+G
I fold my arms around her leaned her head upon my breast
 C majorC                         G+G
I told her I would wed her when I came back from the west
   D7D7         G+G
At my old Clinch mountain home

Verse 4:
  G+G
In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away
    C majorC                     G+G
In the other one my sweetheart I'm thinking of today
    D7D7       G+G
On the sunny mountain side

Chorus:
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7         G+G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7       G+G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my old mountain home

Instrumental:
G+G  C majorC  G+G  D7D7 G+G

Verse 5:
  G+G
My mother's old and feeble my father's getting gray
  C majorC                   G+G
I'm going back to Virginia and I expect to stay
   D7D7         G+G
At my old Clinch mountain home

Chorus:
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7         G+G
Carry me back to old Virginia back to my Clinch mountain home
     C majorC       G+G       D7D7       G+G