Carry Me Back To Virginia

       D                                 G
Well I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy.
D                        A
Born on the banks of the Shenandoah.
    D                 G
In '61, I went to the war,
   D       A   D
To win one for Virginia!

[Instrumental]

/ D - - G / D - A - / D - - G / D A D - /

      D                                     G
Ya my brother went first and they called me too.
      D                      A
I was green as clover in the morning dew.
     D                                     G
So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune.
D        A       D
Carry me back to Virginia!


[Bridge 1]

A                   D
Fire in the cannon, water in the well,
G                               D
Raced through the valley with a rebel yell.
A                            D                   G          A
I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet.


[Chorus]

D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D        A       D
Carry me back to Virginia.


[Fiddle solo]

/ D - G - / D - G - / D A D - /


[Verse 2]

       D                                 G
With a sword and a saddle, Powder in the gun.
   D                        A
We thought for a minute our fight was done.
        D                         G
So they lined us up to the metals arm,
    D           A        D
And hammered us into the quicksand.
          D                                G
Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,
D                            A
Cut through the lands like a red hot iron.
        D                               G
Til the men took cover where the horses piled,
        D                 A    D
Then we shivered and then hold against them.


[Bridge 2]

        A                 D
But the war raged on like flames of hell,
   G                              D
We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,
A                      D
Dressed in rags and we ate that grass
          G                   A
When they cut off our legs we cried!


[Chorus]

D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D        A       D
Carry me back to Virginia.  (repeat chorus)


[Fiddle solo] (bridge chords x2 then chorus chords x2)
/ A - D - / G - D - / A - D - / G - A - / (x2)

/ D - G - / D - G - / D A D - / (x2)


[Verse 3]

         D                               G
And they died in the valley, Died in the swamp,
       D                            A
On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped.
D                                G
Died in the ditches, Died in the fields,
       D
In the belly of a wagon for a womans to heal
D                               G
Died in the war, Starved in the camps.
D                          A
Locked in the prisons of a meaner man.
D                                 G
Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
       D
And to bury the tome of a-dixieland!


[Bridge 3]

A                D
Down in Alabama, down in Caroline,
G                           D
Way down in Gerogie, on the Tennesee line.
   A                          D
We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,
       G                  A
Now we want to go home to Virginia.
       G                  A
Say we want to go home to Virginia!


[Chorus]

D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D        A       D
Carry me back to Virginia.
D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
D                G
Wont ya carry me back?
   D       A         D
I wanna be buried in Virginia!