Take Me Back To Virginia

Bb F Gm Eb Bb F G D Em Down South there's an old man C G D Lives on the corner of a street called Main G D Em Down South theres this old man c And no one knows his name G D Em He plays a flat top made of plywood C G D Stomps on a suit case he carries around G D Em Buys new strings when he can C G D Living off the money from his last hoedown G D Em That old man may taste the bourbon and shine C G D He may smell like mustard gas and rose G D Em But find a good coon ride nothin better C G D Take it down south like this man's prose Em D G He'll sing, take me back to Virginia C G D Back before I had a name Em C G Lay me in a golden field on a mountain side C G D Let the blue sky fill my veins Em D G Em D G Let the chains carry me home, and wash away all my sins Em D G C Like an old dogwood I die where I began G D Em Can you taste the dust in his words C G D Feel the earth of freshly turned fields G D Em Can you smell the salt of her virgin shores G D Em Hear him roar it ain't gonna yield G D Em Well he's cruised those lines, he's ridden those roads and he's roamed those hills C G D But old time don't mean he ain't got a home G D Em Well he fell into the bottle and out of her life, and broke his own heart C G D But since, he's been singing for a place he calls home Em D G He'll sing, take me back to Virginia C G D Back before I had a name Em C G Lay me in a golden field on a mountain side C G D Let the blue sky fill my veins Em D G Em D G Let the chains carry me home, and wash away all my sins Em D G C Like an old dogwood I die where I began Em D G Like an old dogwood I die Em D G Like an old dogwood I die Em D G C Like an old dogwood I die where I began