My Clinch Mountain Home- Family Life (Chapter 2)- Songs & Ballads from Overton Co.
[Carter family recorded this for Victor in 1929 and again for ARC in 1935. The chorus was abbreviated with yodels. Is this the original that the Carters adapted?
R. Matteson 2014]
My Clinch Mountain Home
Far away upon a hill, on a sunny mountainside
Many years ago we parted, my little Ruth and I.
From this sunny mountainside, oh, she clung to me and trembled,
When I told her we must part, and she said "Don't go, my darling
I know twill break my heart, when we two are far apart"
Chorus:
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 an feeble, and my father's getting grey.
Carry me back to old Virginia,
That where I want to stay, at my home, my Clinch Mountain home.
I held her in my arms, leaned her head against my breast,
And I told her I'd wed her, when I came back from the west
To my Clinch Mountain home
In my hands I hold a picture of the old home far away,
And the picture of my sweetheart, I'm thinking of today
On the sunny mountainside.