My Clinch Mountain Home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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