Carry me back to old Virginny

Carry me back to old Virginny

 

 Marian Anderson, Alto

Carry me back to old Virginny,

There's where the cotton

and the corn and tatoes grows,

There's where the birds warble

sweet in the springtime,

There's where the old darkey's

heart am long'd to go,

There's where I labor'd

so hard for old massa,

Day after day in the field of yellow corn,

No place on earth do

I love more sincerely,

Than old ! Virginny, the state

where I was born,

 

Carry me back to old Virginny,

There's where the cotton

and the corn and tatoes grows,

There's where the birds warble

sweet in the springtime,

There's where the old darkey's

heart am long'd to go,