My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy Lyrics by Dolly Parton

0:00From a shack by a mountain stream

0:06To a room in New Orleans

0:12So far from my Blue Ridge mountain home

0:22The men I meet, ain't warm and friendly

0:27Like the one in old 'virginny

0:32Oh they ain't real, like my Blue Ridge mountain boy

0:43I was just a little past 18

0:47When I came to New Orleans

0:53I'd never been beyond my home state line

1:03There was a boy who loved me dearly

1:08But I broke his heart severely

1:13When I left my Blue Ridge mountain boy

1:24Life was dull in my home town

1:28The lights were out when the sun went down

1:33And I thought the city life was more my style

1:43But nights get lonely away from home

1:49And its easy to go wrong

1:54The men ain't kind

1:56Like my Blue Ridge mountain boy

2:04New Orleans held things in store

2:08Things I'd never bargained for

2:14And every night a different man knocks on my door

2:24But late at night when all is still

2:29I can hear a whiporwill, as I cry, for my Blue Ridge mountain boy

2:44Oh but I can ever go back home

2:49Since the boy I love is gone

2:54He grew tired of waiting for me to return

3:04They say he married, last October

3:09But I never will get over

3:14Oh, the sweet love of my Blue Ridge mountain boy

3:22Blue Ridge Mountain Boy

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