East Virginia Songtext
von Elizabeth LaPrelle

I was born in old East Virginia
North Carolina I did roam
′Twas there I met me a fair, pretty maiden
What was her age I did not know


Her hair it was of a dark brown curly
And her lips a rosy red
On her breast she wore a ribbon
Oh, the tears that I have shed

Her papa said that we might marry
Her mama said it would not do
Some dark night if you'll take a ramble
I will run away with you

For I′d rather be in some dark holler
Where the sun refuse to shine
As for you to be another man's woman
Never on earth to call you mine