My Blue Ridge Mountain Home- Songs and Ballads from Overton Co.
[Written by Carson Robison and recorded by Vernon Dalhart in 1927.
R. Matteson 2014]
My Blue Ridge Mountain Home
When the moon goes to shining, and my heart goes to pining,
For my blue ridge mountain home.
With the pine goes a-swaying, and hound starts to baying,
That is where I long to roam.
When the sun comes a beaming, and [I] start into dreaming,
Of a place where flowers bloom.
When I get back again, I'm going to live to the end,
In my blue ridge mountain home.
I never thought that I could be so sad,
Until I left my mountain home.
But the time is a coming when I'll be so glad,
That I never more will roam.
For I've learned a lesson that I won't forget,
Where ever I may be.
And, oh, how I'm longing for the folks back home,
For they mean more than all the world to me.
When the stars go to winking, and I start into thinking,
Of the girl I left behind.
And I keep on playing, while I know she is praying,
That I'm coming back some time.
With the fiddler playing, I'll soon be swaying,
To the tune of "Home Sweet Home."
I know she'll waiting, by the old garden gate,
In my blue ridge mountain home.
Oh, my dad and my mother, and my cute little brother,
Will welcome me back home.
And I know there'll be a trill, when I climb up the hill,
To my blue ridge mountain home.