It was on one winter day, from my home I went away Far away from friends and home I longed to roam But tonight I'm lone and sad, just a little homesick lad And I'm longing from my old Virginia home I'm a lad from old Virginia Bravely knocking my way back home To that cabin home in the mountain Never more let me roam I'm a lad from old Virginia And I'm coming, coming home There I'll settle down forever In my old Virginia home.
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Since I left that little shack, how my mind has wandered back How mother often prayed for her lad But from her I went away, and I know I'll dearly pay So I'm coming back to mother and my dad I'm a lad from old Virginia Bravely knocking my way back home To that cabin home in the mountain Never more let me roam I'm a lad from old Virginia And I'm coming, coming home There I'll settle down forever In my old Virginia home.