My Clinch Mountain Home - Johnny Cash, The Carter Family

Far away on a hill to sunny mountain side

Many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I

From the sunny mountain side

She clung to me and trembled when I told her we must part

She said, «Don't go my darling, it almost breaks my heart

To think of you, so 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

I fold my arms around her, leaned her head upon my breast

I told her I would wed her when I came back from the west

At my old clinch mountain home

In my hand I hold a picture of the old home far away

In the other one my sweetheart I’m thinking of today

On the sunny mountain side

My mother’s old and feeble, my father’s getting gray

I’m going back to Virginia and I expect to stay

At my old, clinch mountain home