Song: Take Me Back to Renfro Valley
Written by John Lair (1934)

[Verse]

I was born in 

Renfro Valley
             
But I drifted 

     
far a-way

I've been back

 to see the ol

d home
            
And my friends

        
 of other days

[Chorus]
             
Gone were old 

         
familiar faces
            
All the friend

            
s I used to kn

 
ow

Things have ch

anged in Renfr

o Valley
            
Since the days

         
 of long a-go

[Verse]

Others own the

 old plantatio

n
             
I can call it 

      
home no more

Other voices s

ing the old so

ngs
            
Other children

          
 'round the do

or

[Chorus]
             
Other voices s

        
ing the old so

ngs
            
When the eveni

           
ng sun is low

Mother sang in

 Renfro Valley
            
In the days of

      
 long a-go

[Verse]

Take me back t

o Renfro Valle

y
             
When I'm free 

     
from earthly c

are

Lay me back by

 dad and mothe

r
            
Let me sleep f

      
or-ever there

[Chorus]
             
When it's spri

              
ngtime in the 


mountains
            
And the dogwoo

            
d blossoms blo


w

We'll be back 

in Renfro Vall

ey
            
As in days of 

     
long a-go

Things have ch

anged in Renfr

o Valley
            
Since the days

         
 of long a-go