East Virginia Blues No. 2 - The Carter Family

My sweetheart has gone and left me

And my little sisters, too

And I’m left alone in sadness

Lord, I don’t know what to do

All this world has turned against me

Nothing but trouble do I see

There will be no more pleasure

In this whole wide world for me

Oh, I am just from East Virginia

With a heart so brave and true

And I learned to love a maiden

With eyes of heavenly blue

That same day I packed my suitcase

And I started to go away

But she met me at the station

Saying, darling, won’t you stay

Oh, I am dying, Captain, dying

Won’t you take these words for me

Take them over to the jailhouse

Let this whole wide world go free