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Artist/Band:
Old Crow Medicine Show
Lyrics for Song: Carry Me Back To Virginia
Lyrics for Album: Carry Me Back [2012]
Well I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy
Born on the banks of the Shenandoah
In '61 I went to the war
To win one for Virginia
Yeah my brother went first, and they called me too
I was green as clover in the morning dew
So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune
Carry me back to Virginia
Fire in the cannon, water in the well
Raked through the valley with a rebel yell
I learned right quick how to march like hell
And to fix that Bayonet
Won't you carry me back, won't you carry me back
Carry me back to Virginia
With a sword in the saddle powder in the gun
We thought for a minute that our fight was done
So they lined us up, put the medals on
And hammered us into the quicksand
Then they burned that valley with a blaze of fire
Cut through the lines like a red hot iron
So we ran for cover where the horses piled
And shivered in the cold against them
But the war raged on like the flames of hell
We dug from the pockets of the ones that fell
We dressed in rags and we ate like rats
When they cut off our legs we cried
Won't you carry me back, won't you carry me back
Carry me back to Virginia
Won't you carry me back, won't you carry me back
Carry me back to Virginia
Then we died in the valley, died in the swamp
On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped
Died in the ditches, died in the field
In the belly of the wagons where our wounds were healed
Died in the war, or starved in the camps
Blocked in the...
Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
And they buried us all over Dixieland
Down in Alabama, down in Caroline
Way down in Georgia on the Tennessee line
We fought for the rebels of Robert E. Lee
Now we wanna go home to Virginia
Said we wanna go home to Virginia
Won't you carry me back, won't you carry me back
Carry me back to Virginia
Won't you carry me back, won't you carry me back
I wanna be buried in Virginia
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