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 spring-time,
There’s where the old darkey’s heart am longed to go,
There’s where I labored so hard for old Massa,
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.
Refrain:
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 spring-time,
There’s where the old darkey’s heart am longed to go.
Carry me back to old Virginny,
There let me live till I wither and decay,
Long by the old dismal swamp have I wandered,
There’s where this old darkey’s life will pass away.
Massa and Missis have long gone before,
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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Hear the song sung:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmI-PfF-8k
The Bard on the Hill 