Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you
(Away, you rolling river)
Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you
(Away, we’re bound away, ‘cross the wide Missouri)
Oh Shenandoah, I love your daughter…
I love the music of your waters…
Oh Shenandoah, I took a notion...
To sail across the stormy ocean…
‘Tis seven long years since last I saw you...
‘Tis seven long years the love I’ve borne you…
Oh Shenandoah, my native valley…
Beside your streams I’d like to dally…
Oh Shenandoah, I’m bound to leave you...
Oh Shenandoah, I’ll not deceive you…
I went away, forsook my lover…
I went away, and took another…