[00:14.188]Well I come from the valley, I'm a rebel boy.[00:16.193]Born on the banks of the Shenandoah.[00:17.956]In sixty-one, I went to the war,[00:19.435]To win one for Virginia![00:28.194]Ya my brother went first and they called me to.[00:30.184]I was green as clover in the morning dew.[00:31.699]So I marched to the drum and I sang to the tune.[00:33.695]Carry me back to Virginia![00:35.683]Fire in the cannon, water in the well,[00:37.438]Raced through the valley with a rebel yell.[00:38.942]I learned right quick how to march like hell and affix that bayonet.[00:42.386]Won't ya carry me back?[00:44.392]Won't ya carry me back?[00:46.131]Carry me back to Virginia.[00:53.148]With a sword and a saddle, powder in the gun.[00:54.901]We thought for a minute our fight was done.[00:56.427]So they lined us up to the metals arm,[00:58.428]And hammered us into the quicksand.[01:00.181]Then they burned that valley in a blaze of fire,[01:01.924]Cut through the lands like a red hot iron.[01:03.670]Til the men took cover where the horses piled,[01:05.426]Then we shivered and then hold against them.[01:07.172]But the war raged on like flames of hell,[01:08.929]We dug through the pockets of the ones who fell,[01:10.922]Dressed in rags and we ate that grass[01:12.670]When they cut off our legs we cried![01:14.428]Won't ya carry me back?[01:16.171]Won't ya carry me back?[01:17.924]Carry me back to Virginia.[01:19.680]Won't ya carry me back?[01:21.169]Won't ya carry me back?[01:23.114]Carry me back to Virginia.[01:49.880]And they died in the valley,[01:50.628]Died in the swamp,[01:51.625]On the banks of the river where the whitetail jumped.[01:53.119]Died in the ditches,[01:54.115]Died in the fields,[01:54.812]In the belly of a wagon for a woman's to heal[01:56.582]Died in the war,[01:57.824]Starved in the camps.[01:58.569]Locked in the prisons of a meaner man.[02:00.063]Spilled our blood in the fight to defend[02:01.829]And to bury the tome of a-dixieland![02:03.812]Down in Alabama,[02:04.571]Down in Caroline,[02:05.577]Way down in Gerogie, on the Tennesee line.[02:07.315]We fought for the rebels, and Robert E. Lee,[02:09.056]Now we want to go home to Virginia.[02:10.563]Say we want to go home to Virginia![02:13.573]Won't ya carry me back?[02:15.080]Won't ya carry me back?[02:16.819]Carry me back to Virginia.[02:18.815]Won't ya carry me back?[02:20.318]Won't ya carry me back?[02:22.308]I wanna be buried in Virginia!