G
    Far away on the hill on a sunny mountain side,
          C                                     G
    many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I,
              D              G
    from the sunny mountain side.

          G
    She clung to me and trembled when I told her we must part,
         C                                             G
    she said don't go my darling, it almost breaks my heart
                 D           G
    to think of you so far apart.

          C              G             D                   G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.
          C              G             D                G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.
D   G  D   G   C  G      D                G
                        Oh, my mountain home.

       G
    I fold my arms around her, lean her head upon my breast,
       C                                                  G
    I told her I would wed her when I come back from the West,
           D                   G
    at my old Clinch Mountain home.

           G
    In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away,
            C                                         G
    in the other one my sweetheart I'm thinking of today,
            D              G
    on the sunny mountain side.

          C              G             D                   G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.
          C              G             D                G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.
D   G  D   G   C  G      D                G
                        Oh, my mountain home.

        G
    My mother's old and feeble, my father's getting gray,
         C                                       G
    I'm going back to Virginie, and I expect to stay
           D                   G
    at my old Clinch Mountain home.

          C              G             D                   G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my Clinch Mountain home.
          C              G             D                G
Carry me back to old Virginie, back to my old mountain home.
D   G  D   G   C  G      D                G
                        Oh, my mountain home.