The wind can cut you like a knife

Another day another dollar

What a way to spend your life

She was young and I was restless

So I set out to see the world

Left my home in old Virginia

And my Blue Ridge mountain girl

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I can see her standing by the window

There’s nothing sadder in the world

Than to see those green eyes all wet from cryin’

On my Blue Ridge mountain girl

In my hand I hold a letter

It said she made a pretty bride

As I lay here in the darkness

She lies by another’s side

I’ve got money in my pocket

Diamond rings that I wear

But I’d trade it all this minute

For all the gold that’s in her hair

Chorus:

I can see her standing by the window…

Repeat chorus:…end