Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back To Virginia Ukulele

Well...
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I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy,
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Born on the banks of the Shenandoah.
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In '61 I went to the war
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To win one for Virginia!


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Yeah, my brother went first then they called me, too.
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I was green as clover in the morning dew,
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So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune:
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Carry me back to Virginia!


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Fire in the cannon, water in the well,
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Raced through the valley with a rebel yell. 
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I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet. 



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Won't ya' carry me back? 
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Won't ya' carry me back?
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Carry me back to Virginia!


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With a sword and a saddle, powder in the gun,
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We thought for a minute our fight was done.
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So they lined us up to the metals arm,
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And hammered us into the quicksand.


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Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,
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Cut through the lands like a red hot iron.
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'Til the men took cover where the horses piled,
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Then we shivered and then hold against them.


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But the war raged on like flames of hell,
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We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,
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Dressed in rags and we ate that grass
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When they cut off our legs we cried!


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Wont ya carry me back?
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Wont ya carry me back?
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Carry me back to Virginia!
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Wont ya carry me back?
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Wont ya carry me back?
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Carry me back to Virginia.


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And they died in the valley, died in the swamp,
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On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped.
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Died in the ditches, died in the fields,
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In the belly of a wagon for a womans to heal,
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Died in the war, starved in the camps.
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Locked in the prisons of a meaner man.
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Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
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And to bury the tome of a-dixieland!

  
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Down in Alabama, down in Caroline,
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Way down in Gerogie, on the Tennessee line.
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We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,
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Now we want to go home to Virginia.
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Say we want to go home to Virginia!


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Wont ya carry me back?
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Wont ya carry me back?
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Carry me back to Virginia.
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Wont ya carry me back?
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Wont ya carry me back?
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I wanna be buried in Virginia!