My Clinch Mountain Home Lyrics

Far away upon a hill
On a sunny mountain side
Many years ago we parted
My own true love and I
From the sunny mountain side

Oh, she clung to me and trembled
When I told her we must part
And she said, "Don't go, my darling
I know it will break my heart
When we two are far apart"

"Carry me back to old Virginia
Back to my clinch mountain home
Carry me back to old Virginia
Back to my old mountain home"

My mother's old and feeble
And my father's getting gray
Carry me back to old Virginia
For its there I want to stay

Oh, I held her in my arms
Leaned her head upon my breast
And I told her that I'd wed her
When I come back from the west
To my old clinch mountain home

In my hand I hold a picture
Of the old home far away
And the picture of my sweetheart
I'm thinking of today
On the sunny mountain side