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West Virginia
Oh my home
West Virginia's
Where I belong
In the dead of the night
In the still and the quiet
I slip away
Like a bird in flight
Back to those hills
The place that I call home

It's been years now
Since I left there
And this city life's
About got the best of me
I can't remember why
I left so free
What I wanted to do
What I wanted to see
But I can sure remember
Where I come from

Chorus

Well I paid the price for the leaving
And this life I have's not one I thought I'd find
Well let me live, love, let me cry
When I go, just let me die
Among the friend who'll remember 
When I'm gone

Chorus

Home, home, home
Oh I can see it so clear in my mind
Home, home, home
I can almost smell the honeysuckle vines
In the dead of the night
In the still and the quiet
I slip away like a bird in flight
Back to those hills that I call home
Home

Source: Hazel Dickens, Happy Valley Music (1976)