Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry me back to virginia

^CI come from the valley, I'm a rebel ^Fboy, ^CBorn on the banks of the ^GShenandoah. ^CIn '61 I went to the ^Fwar ^CTo win one ^Gfor Vir^Cginia!

Yeah, ^Cmy brother went first then they called ^Fme, too. ^CI was green as clover in the ^Gmorning dew, ^CSo I marched to the drum and I sang to the ^Ftune: ^CCarry me ^Gback to Vir^Cginia!

^GFire in the cannon, ^Cwater in the well, ^FRaced through the valley with a re^Gbel yell. ^GI learned right quick how to m^Carch like hell and af^Ffix that bayon^Get.

^CWon't ya' carry me ^Fback? ^CWon't ya' carry me ^Fback? ^CCarry me ^Gback to ^CVirginia!

With a ^Csword and a saddle, powder in the ^Fgun, ^CWe thought for a minute our ^Gfight was done. ^CSo they lined us up to the metals ^Farm, ^CAnd hammered us ^Ginto the ^Cquicksand.

^CThen they burned that valley in a blaze of ^Ffire, ^CCut through the lands like a red ^Ghot iron. ^C'Til the men took cover where the horses ^Fpiled, ^CThen we shivered ^Gand then hold ^Cagainst them.

^GBut the war raged on like ^Cflames of hell, ^FWe dug through the pockets of the ^Gones who fell, ^GDressed in rags and we ate that ^Cgrass ^FWhen they cut off our legs ^Gwe cried!

^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CCarry me ^Gback to ^CVirginia! ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CCarry me ^Gback to ^CVirginia.

^CAnd they died in the valley, died in the ^Fswamp, ^COn the banks of the river where the ^Gwhitetail jumped. ^CDied in the ditches, died in the ^Ffields, ^CIn the belly of a wagon for a ^Gwomans to heal, ^CDied in the war, starved in the ^Fcamps. ^CLocked in the prisons of a ^Gmeaner man. ^CSpilled our blood in the fight to ^Fdefend ^CAnd to bury the ^Gtome of a-^Cdixieland!

^GDown in Alabama, ^Cdown in Caroline, ^FWay down in Gerogie, on the ^GTennessee line. ^GWe fought for the rebels, and ^CRobert E. Lee, ^FNow we want to go home to ^GVirginia. ^FSay we want to go home to ^GVirginia!

^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CCarry me ^Gback to ^CVirginia. ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CWont ya carry me ^Fback? ^CI wanna be ^Gburied in ^CVirginia!