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Once I Lived In Old Virginia Last Song

Once I lived in old Virginia, to North Carolina I did go
There I spied a beautiful damsel, but her name I never did know
Her hair was black as any charcoal, her eyes were of some diamond blue
On her bosom she wore white lilies, well my poor heart most broke in two
Every day I'm thinking about her, every night till I can't rest
Every moment seems like an hour, oh what a pain across my breast
Shall I go to Alagadie, shall I go for loving you?
Or shall I go to some far country, where I bid a sad adieu?
Fetch me a razor and a pan of cold water
Fetch me a hammer to beat out my brains
For the old corn liquour has got me surrounded
The women have run me deranged