Virgie From Virginia 1907

by James Pitt-Payne, London UK - 21 March 2009
2009

Tonight my thoughts
go back to old Virginia
I see the home as in the days of yore.
I see a Mammy and her pickaninnies
Seated by an old log cabin door.
The sun behind the hills is slowly sinking
the shadows o'er the land begin to creep,
Then I seem to hear this tune
"Tis Mammy's little coon,"
As she rocks her pickaninny off to sleep.

Virgie from Virginia
Fairest babe in all the land,
Virgie from Virginia
you are simply grand,
Close your eyes and go to rest
slumber on your Mammy's breast,
Dream the dreams that you love best
Virgie from Virginia!

But now all things have changed
in that green valley,
the picture it has gone
for ever more.
The old log cabin's
passed away to ruins,
Mammy's gone to that
far distant shore.
But still the mem'ry
stays with me for ever,
and I'll recall that scene
where ere I live.
For that melody so queer,
seems still ringing in my ear,
and to see it o'er again
my all I'd give.

Virgie from Virginia
Fairest babe in all the land,
Virgie from Virginia
you are simply grand,
Close your eyes and go to rest
slumber on your Mammy's breast,
Dream the dreams that you love best
Virgie from Virginia!

Soft karaoke
Words
piano 1
piano 2
piano 3
piano 4
lyric
pizz str bass
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Virgie From Virginia 1907
by Max Armstrong
© MCMVII by M.Witmark & Sons.
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sequence & karaoke by James Pitt-Payne, London UK
on Saturday 21 March 2009 at 16.03
in association with Veda Meyer-Castens
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