Carry Me Back To Old Virginny chords by Nat King Cole, The Nat King Cole Trio
Verse 1
D
F
Em
G
A
D
Carry me back
Em
D
to old Virginia
E
There's where the cotton and corn
A
and daters grow
D
G
There's where the birds warble sweet
D
in the springtime
That's where the old darkies
E
A
D
hard and long to go
A
There's where I labored
D
so hard for old Massa
E
A
Day after day in the field of yellow corn
D
Em
No place on earth do I love
D
more sincerely
Than old Virginia,
Em
A
D
the state where I was born
C
G
Eb
Carry me back to old Virginia
D
A
D
Fdim
Bdim
There's where the corn
Fdim
E
Em
D
C
an d taters grow
D
C
G
There's where the birds sing
Gdim
Eb
sweet in spring time
D
Fdim
That's where my heart
Bdim
Fdim
C
longs to grow
D
Carry me back to
Carry me back
A
D
G
Em
D
Carry me back to old Virginia
There let me live, I want to live till
E
A
I want to live till I wither and decay
D
There's where the birds warble sweet
Am
G
D
They sing in springtime
There's where the old darkies
Em
E
A
D
hard and long to go
A
G
D
We don't want to be in a wacky key
E
A
Don't want to meet on that golden shore
D
But we'll be happy and
G
we'll all be free
A
G
A
Back in old Virginia,
D
the state where I was born
Bbdim
A
Bbdim
Was born, was born,
A
Bbdim
D
was born, was born you
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