{"id":377,"date":"2018-09-01T00:58:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T00:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/?page_id=377"},"modified":"2023-05-15T12:46:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T12:46:55","slug":"carry-me-back-to-old-virginny","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/carry-me-back-to-old-virginny\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[WARNING: contains politically incorrect stereotypes. No hatred intended. Presented as musical history.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a 1878 popular song<br>words and music by James A. Bland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A poignant ballad that was sung in the minstrel shows. James Bland was possibly the first African-American songwriter published. As a young man in 1875, long after slavery, he visited a plantation in Virginia. He was moved by the soft, peaceful atmosphere of cotton fields and cornfields. He translated his feelings into the plea of an aging person who longs to return to the scenes of his childhood. Bland loved the minstrels. His song fits the unrealistic minstrel show formula of the slave wanting to go back South. He gave his song to the minstrels who began to make it popular. Bland became a successful minstrel himself. In 1940 it became Virginia&#8217;s state song. These are the original lyrics that are now offensive to many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sheet music:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Carry Me Back To Old Virginny - Sheet Music.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c33d659b-a45e-4016-b912-bbac95dbb400\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.pdf\">Carry Me Back To Old Virginny &#8211; Sheet Music<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c33d659b-a45e-4016-b912-bbac95dbb400\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Accompaniment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-0bd71e48-c39b-4f96-8459-d20b4361b005\" href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.mid\">Carry Me Back To Old Virginny &#8211; MIDI<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.mid\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-0bd71e48-c39b-4f96-8459-d20b4361b005\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Carry me back to old Virginny<br>There&#8217;s where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow<br>There&#8217;s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime<br>There&#8217;s where the old darkey&#8217;s heart am longed to go<br>There&#8217;s where I labored so hard for old massa<br>Day after day in the field of yellow corn<br>No place on earth do I love more sincerely<br>Than old Virginny, the state where I was born<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chorus<br>Carry me back to old Virginny<br>There&#8217;s where the cotton and the corn and tatoes grow<br>There&#8217;s where the birds warble sweet in the springtime<br>There&#8217;s where this old darkey&#8217;s heart am longed to go<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Carry me back to old Virginny<br>There let me live &#8217;til I wither and decay<br>Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered<br>There&#8217;s where this old darkey&#8217;s life will pass away<br>Massa and missis have long gone before me<br>Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore<br>There we&#8217;ll be happy and free from all sorrow<br>There&#8217;s where we&#8217;ll meet and we&#8217;ll never part no more<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sung here by Fred Feild:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Carry-Me-Back-To-Old-Virginny.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[WARNING: contains politically incorrect stereotypes. No hatred intended. Presented as musical history.] a 1878 popular songwords and music by James A. Bland A poignant ballad that was sung in the minstrel shows. James Bland was possibly the first African-American songwriter published. As a young man in 1875, long after slavery, he visited a plantation in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/carry-me-back-to-old-virginny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Carry Me Back To Old Virginny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pa3ZiQ-65","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheetmusicsinger.com\/highbrownsongs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}