Take Me Back to Renfro Valley
The Osborne Brothers
The Essential Bluegrass Album
Chords tabbed by:  Verne Garrison
Banjo tuned E, Capo 3, Key E


I was born in 

Renfro Valley
              
But I drifted 

       
far a- way

I came back to

 see the old h

ome
            
And my friends

              
 of other days
             
Gone are old f

        
amiliar faces
              
All my friends

           
 I used to kno

w
             
Things have ch

              
anged in Renfr

  
o Valley
            
Since the days

            
 of long a- go


Others own the

 old plantatio

n
              
I can't call i

          
t home no more

Other sing the

 old songs
            
Other children

             
 'round the do

   
or
             
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


Take me back t

o Renfro Valle

y
              
When I'm free 

             
from earthly c


ares

Lay me down by

 Dad and Mothe

r
            
Let me sleep f

            
orever there
             
When it's spri

              
ngtime in the 


mountains
              
And the dogwoo

          
d blossom blow

s

We'll be back 

in Renfro Vall

ey
            
As in days of 

        
long a- go