- Sep 17, 2012
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I remember singing this song as a child in school ....but only realised later that it was the song of a slave longing to go back on the the plantation.
Carry Me back to Old Virginia
There' where the cotton, and the corn tatoes grow
There's where I laboured so hard for ole Massa
Day after day in the fields of yellow corn
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginia the State where I was born.
Never could understand why we sang it.
Carry Me back to Old Virginia
There' where the cotton, and the corn tatoes grow
There's where I laboured so hard for ole Massa
Day after day in the fields of yellow corn
No place on earth do I love more sincerely
Than old Virginia the State where I was born.
Never could understand why we sang it.