Chords with lyrics
This is Carry Me Back To Virginia by Old Crow Medicine Show.
This song is very repetitive and only uses 3 chords, but it is fun and lively.
Enjoy!
Well...
C F
I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy,
C G
Born on the banks of the Shenandoah.
C F
In '61 I went to the war
C G C
To win one for Virginia!
C F
Yeah, my brother went first then they called me, too.
C G
I was green as clover in the morning dew,
C F
So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune:
C G C
Carry me back to Virginia!
G C
Fire in the cannon, water in the well,
F G
Raced through the valley with a rebel yell.
G C F G
I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet.
C F
Won't ya' carry me back?
C F
Won't ya' carry me back?
C G C
Carry me back to Virginia!
C F
With a sword and a saddle, powder in the gun,
C G
We thought for a minute our fight was done.
C F
So they lined us up to the metals arm,
C G C
And hammered us into the quicksand.
C F
Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,
C G
Cut through the lands like a red hot iron.
C F
'Til the men took cover where the horses piled,
C G C
Then we shivered and then hold against them.
G C
But the war raged on like flames of hell,
F G
We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,
G C
Dressed in rags and we ate that grass
F G
When they cut off our legs we cried!
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C G C
Carry me back to Virginia!
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C G C
Carry me back to Virginia.
C F
And they died in the valley, died in the swamp,
C G
On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped.
C F
Died in the ditches, died in the fields,
C G
In the belly of a wagon for a womans to heal,
C F
Died in the war, starved in the camps.
C G
Locked in the prisons of a meaner man.
C F
Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
C G C
And to bury the tome of a-dixieland!
G C
Down in Alabama, down in Caroline,
F G
Way down in Gerogie, on the Tennessee line.
G C
We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,
F G
Now we want to go home to Virginia.
F G
Say we want to go home to Virginia!
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C G C
Carry me back to Virginia.
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C F
Wont ya carry me back?
C G C