Lyr Req: West Virginia? / East Virginia

Subject: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: GUEST,tatts
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 05:45 AM

Does anyone know of more lyrics than the 4 verses beginning with I was born in West Virginia.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: GUEST,#
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 07:05 AM

What four stanzas do you have?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 07:50 AM

I was born in West Virginia
North Carolina did I go,
there I met a fair young maiden,
and whose name I do not know,

Well her hair was dark of colour,
cheeks they were a rose red,
on her breast she wore white lily, s
where I longed to lay my head

I Don, t want your greenback dollar,
I Don, t want your silver chain
all I want is your love darling,
say that you'll be mine again,

I'd rather live in some dark holler
where the sun would never shine,
than for you to love another,
and to know you'd never be mine.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: GUEST,#
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 08:10 AM

http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW02480.pdf

There was a fifth stanza done by Cisco Houston (East Virginia) and it's on the liner notes.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: cnd
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 08:14 AM

It's East Virginia, sometimes called East Virginia Blues:

@displaysong.cfm?SongID=1781

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: GUEST,#
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 10:29 AM

thread.cfm?threadid=35233

Excellent thread linked there.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: my old home on the green mountainside
From: GUEST,Norman blake fields of november
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 11:11 AM

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: West virginia
From: threelegsoman
Date: 14 Feb 16 - 08:22 PM

The version I sing is East Virginia and it has eight verses.
I got this one from the Toneway Collection.
East Virginia (Including lyrics and chords)