East Virginia

[Verso 1]
 
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I was born and in old East Virginia 
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North Carolina I did go 
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There I courted a fine young lady 
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What was her age, I did not know 
 


[Verso 2]
 
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Her hair it was of a dark brown curly 
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Her cheeks they were a rosy red 
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Upon her bosom she wore a ribbon 
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For the tears that I have shed 
 


[Verso 3]
 
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Her papa said that we might marry 
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Her mama said it would not do 
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'Some dark night if you take a ramble 
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I will roam away with you' 
 


[Verso 4]
 
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'For I'd rather be in some dark hollow 
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Where the sun don't ever shine 
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As for you to be some other man's woman 
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Never on earth to call you mine'