'Mid The Green Fields Of Virginia (1931) - The Carter Family

Mid the green fields of Virginia in the vale of Shenandoah

There’s an ivy covered homestead that I love

With its white old fashioned chimney and its simple homelike airs

This the home of my dear parents now above

There’s a peaceful cottage there, a happy home so dear

My heart is longing for them day by day

Where I spent life’s golden hours in the vale of Shenandoah

Mid the green fields of Virginia far away

Mid the green fields of Virginia stands an old mill by the stream

I would wander to that spot to sing and play

And how often I would throw a stone into the babbling brook

And dream some day it would carry be away