West Virginia my home, sweet home,

My heart beats with lasting love for you,

Where my roots are so deep, where my forefathers sleep,

Where the kinfolks and friends are staunch and true;

Where the Blue of the North, and the Grey of the South

Long have blended in perfect harmony,

Where the East meets the West, and derives from each the best,

That’s West Virginia, home, sweet home for me!

 

West Virginia my home, sweet home,

Where mountains and hills and valleys, too,

And the orchards, the farms, timberlands, all have charms,

And the fact’ries and mines are on review;

There I work, and I play, and I worship Sunday,

In that land where the mountaineers are free,

Other states are OK, it’s a grand old USA,

But West Virginia’s home, sweet home for me!

 

By:  Col. Julian G. Hearne, Jr