My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy lyrics

From a shack by
a mountain stream
to a room in
New Orleans

So far from my Blue
Ridge Mountain home

The men I meet ain't
warm and friendly
like the one
in old Virginie

Oh they ain't really
like my Blue Ridge
Mountain boy

I was just a
little past eighteen
when I came to
New Orleans

I'd never been beyond
my home state line

There was a boy who
loved me dearly
but I broke his
heart severely

When I left my Blue
Ridge Mountain boy

Life was dull
in my hometown

Lights were out when
the sun went down

And I thought
that city life was
more my style

But nights get lonely
away from home
And it's easy
to go wrong

The men ain't kind
like my Blue Ridge
Mountain boy

New Orleans held
things in store
Things I'd never
bargained for

And every night
a different man
knocks on my door

But late at night
when all is still

I can hear
a whippoorwill

As I cry for my Blue
Ridge Mountain boy

Oh but I can never
go back home

Since the boy
I love is gone

He grew tired of waiting
for me to return

They say he married
last October

But I never
will get over

Oh the sweet love
of my Blue Ridge
Mountain boy

Blue Ridge
Mountain boy