Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (1939, Standard transcription) chords by Nat King Cole
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Verse 1
(D major) (F major) (D major) (G major) (A major) (D major) Carry me back
to (E minor) old Vir (D major) ginny,
There's where the cotton and
the (E minor) corn and taters grow, (A major)
(D major) There's where the birds warble
sweet (G major) in the spring (D major) time,
There's where this old darky's
(E major) heart am (E minor) long to go. (D major) (A major)
Verse 2
There's where I (A major) labored
so (D major) hard for old massa,
Day after (E major) day in the (E minor) fields of yellow (A major) corn, (E flat major)
(D major) No place on earth do I (G major) love
(E minor) more sin (D major) cerely,
Than old Virginny,
the (E minor) place where (A major) I was born. (D major)
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Verse 3
(D major) Carry me (C major) back (G major) to old Virginny, (E flat major)
There (D major) let me live 'till I wither
(A flatdim) (Fdim) (E minor) and decay,
Long by the old Dismal (C major) Swamp
have I wandered, (D major)
There's where this old (C major) (G major) darky's
(E flat major) life am (D major) passed away.
Verse 4
Massa and misses have (Fdim) long
gone before me,
Soon we will meet on that
(C major) bright and golden shore.
(D major) There we'll be happy and
free from all sorrow,
There's where we'll meet and
we'll never part no more.
Carry (G major) me back
Verse 5
to (E minor) (G major) old (E minor) Vir (D major) ginny,
There's where the cotton and the (E major)
corn an (E minor) d tater (A major) s grow, (D major)
There's where the birds warble sweet
(A minor) (G major) in the spring (D major) time,
There's where this old darky's (E minor) heart am (A major) long to
Outro 1
go.
(D major) (A major) (G major) (D major) (E major)
(A major) (D major) (G major) (A major)
(E minor) (A major) (D major) (A major) (B flatdim) (A major) (D major)
Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (1939, Standard transcription)
Nat King Cole
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