My Old Virginia Home

Key of D · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

                                 G           D
It was on one winter day from my home I went away
                                           A
Far away from friends and home I longed to roam
    D                             G        D
But tonight I’m lone and sad just a little homesick lad
                       A   D
And I’m longing for my old Virginia home

Chorus

               G   D        G                       D
I’m a lad from old Virginia bravely knocking my way back home
              G       D             A
To that cabin home in the mountains never more let me roam
      D   G        D            G          D
I’m a lad from old Virginia and I’m coming coming home
                  G    D          A      D
There I’ll settle down forever in my old Virginia home

Verse 2

                                      G        D
Since I left that little shack how my mind has wandered back
                                A
How mother often prayed for her lad
         D                     G           D
But from her I went astray and I know I’ve dearly paid
                      A          D
So I’m coming back to mother and my dad