Sweet Virginia Home
Copyright 2009 Lindsey Montana

In a house on the banks of the Shenendoah River
Lived a girl who often dreamed of the freedom to roam
She didn't know a day would come that would haunt her forever
And she'd long for the comfort of her sweet Virginia home

She met a boy from the north, from Providence, Rhode Island
Full of promises and dreams of what they could achieve
By the time she found out that his promises were empty
There was nothing she could do, it was too late to leave

And he tried to make her understand
One more lie to a woman from a man
It's no good, it's no use, no amount of desperate pleading
Would ever change the way she looked at him
From that moment on

"I don't know," Cathy said as she turned around to face me
In the bed that we'd shared for just too many years
And I felt that the earth that had always been beneath me
Fell away taking everything I ever had held dear

And I tried to make her understand
One more lie to a woman from a man
It's no good, it's no use, no amount of desperate pleading
Would ever change the way she looked at me
From that moment on

As the waters make their way down the Shenendoah River
To join with the Potomac with its darkness and its foam
Far away lives a woman in Providence, Rhode Island
Who longs for the comfort of her sweet Virginia home.