My Clinch Mountain home    (intro)

 

      intro = verse 1                  G

1.                            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

2. 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

+ (Yodelling)                        Oh, my mountain home.

 

       G

3. 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

4. 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.        + CHORUS

             G

5. 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. + CHORUS

 

      Recorded 2/14/29 Camden, NJ & 5/9/35 New York, NY

 

    (The Carter Family)