Johnny Cash - My Clinch Mountain Home lyrics

Far away upon a hill on a sunny mountain side
Many years ago we parted
My own true love and I
From the sunny mountain side

Oh she clung to me and trembled
When I told her we must part
And she said don't go my darling
I know twill break my heart
When we two are far apart

Carry me back to old Virginia back
To my clinch mountain home
Carry me back to old Virginia back
To my old mountain home
My mother's old and feeble and
My father's getting gray
Carry me back to old Virginia for
It's there I want to stay

Oh I held her in my arms
Leaned her head upon my breast
And I told her that I'd wed her
When I come back from the west
To my old clinch mountain home

In my hand I hold a picture
Of the old home far away
And the picture of my sweetheart
I'm thinking of today
On the sunny mountain side