My Clinch Mountain Home Lyrics - Singles - The Original Carter Family

Far away on a hill to sunny mountain side 

Many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I 

From the sunny mountain side 

She clung to me and trembled when I told her we must part 

She said, "Don't go my darling, it almost breaks my heart 

To think of you, so far apart" 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my clinch mountain home 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my old mountain home 

I fold my arms around her, leaned her head upon my breast 

I told her I would wed her when I came back from the west 

At my old clinch mountain home 

In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away 

In the other one my sweetheart I'm thinking of today 

On the sunny mountain side 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my clinch mountain home 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my old mountain home 

My mother's old and feeble, my father's getting gray 

I'm going back to Virginia and I expect to stay 

At my old, clinch mountain home 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my clinch mountain home 

Carry me back to old Virginia 

Back to my old mountain home