Carry Me Back To Virginia chords by Old Crow Medicine Show

Chords with lyrics

Note that the last verse and bridge are played differently than the rest.
The measure/bar example for the intro is used for the first two verses too.

[Intro]
Pattern of 4 measures (4/4 time signature):
D MajorD D D MajorD G+G | D MajorD D A augmentedA A majorA | D MajorD D D MajorD G+G | D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD - |


[Verse]
    D MajorD                 G+G
Well I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy
 D MajorD            A augmentedA
Born on the banks of the Shenandoah
  D MajorD            G+G
In sixty-one, I went to the war,
  D MajorD    A augmentedA  D MajorD
To win one for Virginia!

    D MajorD                  G+G
Ya my brother went first and they called me too
    D MajorD               A augmentedA
I was green as clover in the morning dew
   D MajorD                   G+G
So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune
 D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
Carry me back to Virginia!

[Bridge]
 A augmentedA          D MajorD
Fire in the cannon, water in the well,
 G+G                A augmentedA
Raced through the valley with a rebel yell
  A augmentedA             D MajorD          G+G       A augmentedA
I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet.


[Chorus]
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
Carry me back to Virginia


[Verse]
    D MajorD                 G+G
With a sword and a saddle, powder in the gun
   D MajorD            A augmentedA
We thought for a minute our fight was done
     D MajorD             G+G
So they lined us up with the medals on ,
   D MajorD      A augmentedA    D MajorD
And hammered us into the quicksand

      D MajorD                G+G
Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,
 D MajorD              A augmentedA
Cut through the lands like a red hot iron
    D MajorD               G+G
Til we ran for cover where the horses piled,
     D MajorD       A augmentedA      D MajorD
Then we shivered in the cold against them

[Bridge]
     A augmentedA         D MajorD
But the war raged on like flames of hell,
  G+G                A augmentedA
We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,
  A augmentedA          D MajorD
Dressed in rags and we ate like rats
      G+G          A augmentedA
When they cut off our legs we cried!


[Chorus]
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
Carry me back to Virginia

 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
Carry me back to Virginia


[Alternative Verse]
     D MajorD
And they died in the valley,
 G+G
Died in the swamp,
    D MajorD               A augmentedA
On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped

 D MajorD
Died in the ditches,
 G+G
Died in the fields,
     D MajorD             A augmentedA
In the belly of a wagon a‘fore our wounds were healed

 D MajorD
Died in the war,
 G+G
Starved in the camps
 D MajorD             A augmentedA
Locked in the prisons of a meaner man
 D MajorD            G+G
Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
     D MajorD          A augmentedA
And they buried us all over Dixieland!


[Alternative Bridge]
 A augmentedA
Down in Alabama,
 D MajorD
Down in Caroline,
 G+G              A augmentedA
Way down in Georgia, on the Tennessee line
  A augmentedA             D MajorD
We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,
  G+G            A augmentedA
Now we want to go home to Virginia
  G+G            A augmentedA
Say we want to go home to Virginia!


[Chorus]
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD    A augmentedA    D MajorD
Carry me back to Virginia

 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
 D MajorD         G+G
Won't ya carry me back?
  D MajorD    A augmentedA     D MajorD

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