[00:14.188]Well I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy.
[00:16.193]Born on the banks of the Shenandoah.
[00:17.956]In sixty-one, I went to the war,
[00:19.435]To win one for Virginia!
[00:28.194]Ya my brother went first and they called me to.
[00:30.184]I was green as clover in the morning dew.
[00:31.699]So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune.
[00:33.695]Carry me back to Virginia!
[00:35.683]Fire in the cannon, water in the well,
[00:37.438]Raced through the valley with a rebel yell.
[00:38.942]I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet.
[00:42.386]Won't ya carry me back?
[00:44.392]Won't ya carry me back?
[00:46.131]Carry me back to Virginia.
[00:53.148]With a sword and a saddle, powder in the gun.
[00:54.901]We thought for a minute our fight was done.
[00:56.427]So they lined us up to the metals arm,
[00:58.428]And hammered us into the quicksand.
[01:00.181]Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,
[01:01.924]Cut through the lands like a red hot iron.
[01:03.670]Til the men took cover where the horses piled,
[01:05.426]Then we shivered and then hold against them.
[01:07.172]But the war raged on like flames of hell,
[01:08.929]We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,
[01:10.922]Dressed in rags and we ate that grass
[01:12.670]When they cut off our legs we cried!
[01:14.428]Won't ya carry me back?
[01:16.171]Won't ya carry me back?
[01:17.924]Carry me back to Virginia.
[01:19.680]Won't ya carry me back?
[01:21.169]Won't ya carry me back?
[01:23.114]Carry me back to Virginia.
[01:49.880]And they died in the valley,
[01:50.628]Died in the swamp,
[01:51.625]On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped.
[01:53.119]Died in the ditches,
[01:54.115]Died in the fields,
[01:54.812]In the belly of a wagon for a woman's to heal
[01:56.582]Died in the war,
[01:57.824]Starved in the camps.
[01:58.569]Locked in the prisons of a meaner man.
[02:00.063]Spilled our blood in the fight to defend
[02:01.829]And to bury the tome of a-dixieland!
[02:03.812]Down in Alabama,
[02:04.571]Down in Caroline,
[02:05.577]Way down in Gerogie, on the Tennesee line.
[02:07.315]We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,
[02:09.056]Now we want to go home to Virginia.
[02:10.563]Say we want to go home to Virginia!
[02:13.573]Won't ya carry me back?
[02:15.080]Won't ya carry me back?
[02:16.819]Carry me back to Virginia.
[02:18.815]Won't ya carry me back?
[02:20.318]Won't ya carry me back?
[02:22.308]I wanna be buried in Virginia!