(Dolly Parton)
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From a shack by a mountain stream
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To a room in New Orleans
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So far from my Blue Ridge Mountain home
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The men I meet ain't warm and friendly
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Like the one in old Virginie
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Oh they ain't real like my Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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I was just a little past eighteen
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When I came to New Orleans
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I'd never been beyond my home state line
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There was a boy who loved me dearly
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But I broke his heart severely
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When I left my Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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Life was dull in my hometown
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Lights were out when the sun went down
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And I thought that city life was more my style
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But nights get lonely away from home
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And it's easy to go wrong
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The men ain't kind like my Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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New Orleans held things in store
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Things I'd never bargained for
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And every night a different man knocks on my door
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But late at night when all is still
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I can hear a whippoorwill
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As I cry for my Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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Oh but I can never go back home
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Since the boy I love is gone
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He grew tired of waiting for me to return
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They say he married last October
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But I never will get over
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Oh the sweet love of my Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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Blue Ridge Mountain boy
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My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
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| Dolly Parton |
