My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy Song Lyrics and Chords by Dolly Parton
My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy
Written and Recorded by Dolly Parton
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From a shack by a mountain stream
To a room in
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leans
So far from my blue ridge mountain
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home
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men I meet ain't warm and friendly
Like the one in
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old
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giny
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Oh
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they ain't real like my
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blue ridge mountain
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boy
I was just a little past eighteen
When I came to
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leans
I'd never been beyond my home state
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line
There was a
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boy who loved me dearly
But I broke his
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heart
se
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verely
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When I
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left my
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blue ridge mountain
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boy
Life was
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dull in my hometown
Lights were
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out when the
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sun went
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down
And I thought the city life was more my
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style
But nights get lonely way from home
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to go
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wrong
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men ain't kind like
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my blue ridge mountain
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boy
New Orleans held things in store
Things I've never
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bargained
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for
Every night a different man knocks on my
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door
But late at
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night when all is still
I can hear a
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whippoor
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will
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As I
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cry for my
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blue ridge mountain
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Oh but I
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can't ever go back home
Since the
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boy I
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loved is
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gone
He grew tired of waiting for me to
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return
They say he'd married last October
But I never
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will get
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over
Oh the sweet love of my
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blue ridge mountain
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boy
Blue ridge
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mountain
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boy
FAQ
Who sang the the song My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy?
- The song My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy was sang by Dolly Parton.
Who is Dolly Parton?
- Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, actress, author, businesswoman, and humanitarian, known primarily for her work in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello, I'm Dolly, which led to success during the remainder of the 1960s (both as a solo artist and with a series of duet albums with Porter Wagoner), before her sales and chart peak came during the 1970s and continued into the 1980s. Parton's albums in the 1990s did not sell as well, but she achieved commercial success again in the new millennium and has released albums on various independent labels since 2000, including her own label, Dolly Records. She has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Parton's music includes Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)-certified gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. She has had 25 songs reach no. 1 on the Billboard country music charts, a record for a female artist (tied with Reba McEntire). She has 44 career Top 10 country albums, a record for any artist, and she has 110 career-charted singles over the past 40 years. She has garnered 11 Grammy Awards and 50 nominations, including the Lifetime Achievement Award ten Country Music Association Awards, including Entertainer of the Year and is one of only seven female artists to win the Country Music Association's Entertainer of the Year Award five Academy of Country Music Awards, also including Entertainer of the Year four People's Choice Awards and three American Music Awards.
In 1999, Parton was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. She has composed over 3,000 songs, including "I Will Always Love You" (a two-time U.S. country chart-topper, as well as an international pop hit for Whitney Houston), "Jolene", "Coat of Many Colors", and "9 to 5". She is also in a select group to have received at least one nomination from the Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, and Emmy Awards. As an actress, she has starred in films such as 9 to 5 (1980) and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982), for which she earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress, as well as Rhinestone (1984), Steel Magnolias (1989), Straight Talk (1992) and Joyful Noise (2012).
