Carry Me Back To Old Virginny

Song: James Bland.

Carry me back to old Virginny.
There’s where the cotton and corn and taters grow.
There’s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime.
There’s where this old darkey’s heart am long’d to go.

There’s where I labored so hard for old Massa,
Day after day, in the fields of yellow corn.
No place on earth do I love more sincerely,
Then old Virginny, the state where I was born.

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 springtime.
There’s where this old darkey’s heart am long’d 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 Missus have long since gone before me.
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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