Goodbye, Virginia, you green battleground I've worked your beer joints, Winchester on down Now there’s ten women wounded, two good trucks gone I’ve burned up my good luck, sung my last song So it’s goodbye, Virginia, so long
I left my home in Floyd County, young and aflame With a dream and a dreadnought, I’d soon make my name But you can’t make a living on a song and a prayer And the men in those taverns are too drunk to care
In some northern city there’s a straight nine-to-five Give me paper and I’ll push it, a truck and I’ll drive But no more I’ll return to the land of my youth Twenty years of hard country’s too much of the truth