Far away upon a hill on a sunny mountain side

Many years ago we parted, my own true love and I From the sunny mountain side

Oh she clung to me and trembled, when I told her we must part

And she said don't go my darling I know twill break my heart

When we two are 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

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

Carry me back to old Virginia for its there I want to stay

Oh I held her in my arms leaned her head upon my breast

And I told her that I'd wed her when I come back from the west

To my old clinch mountain home

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

I'm thinking of today

On the sunny mountain side