G
From a shack by a mountain stream
             C     G
To a room in New Orleans
                                   D7
So far from my blue ridge mountain home
    G
The men I meet ain't warm and friendly
                C      G   C
Like the one in old Virginy
   G                       D7                  G
Oh they ain't real like my blue ridge mountain boy


I was just a little past eighteen
               C     G
When I came to New Orleans
                                    D7
I'd never been beyond my home state line
            G
There was a boy who loved me dearly
                C       G      C
But I broke his heart severely
       G       D7                  G
When I left my blue ridge mountain boy

         C
Life was dull in my hometown
            A#7          F        C
Lights were out when the sun went down
                                        G
And I thought the city life was more my style

But nights get lonely way from home
              C     G    C
And it's easy to go wrong
    G                   D7                     G
The men ain't kind like my blue ridge mountain boy


New Orleans held things in store
                  C         G
Things I've never bargained for
                                         D7
Every night a different man knocks on my door
            G
But late at night when all is still
             C       G    C
I can hear a whippoorwill
     G          D7                  G
As I cry for my blue ridge mountain boy

         C
Oh but I can't ever go back home
          A#7   F        C
Since the boy I loved is gone
                                   G
He grew tired of waiting for me to return

They say he'd married last October
            C        G
But I never will get over
                        D7                  G
Oh the sweet love of my blue ridge mountain boy

           D7       G
Blue ridge mountain boy