Name: Mama's Going Back (To West Virginia)
Duration: P00H02M41S
Description: The song was written after hearing that the funeral home in TN would be transporting Mom's body to WV, leaving late at night for an arrival the next morning.

Mama's Going Back (To West Virginia)

by Steve and Annie Chapman

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The song was written after hearing that the funeral home in TN would be transporting Mom's body to WV, leaving late at night for an arrival the next morning.

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Mama’s Goin’ Back (To West Virginia)

Mama’s goin’ back to West Virginia
She left last night from Tennessee
To be with her friends that she’s been missin’
To be there with her family

Cho…
Up there in mountains where they mine the coal
That fed her as a child and warmed her body and her soul
In her heart she always knew it’s the place where she belonged
Mama’s goin’ back to WV
She’s headin’ home

The night is long but they’ll keep drivin’
She’ll be there when the sun comes up
With every mile she’ll be smilin’
Soon she’ll be beside the man she loves

Cho

Mama’s goin’ back to West Virginia
She left last night from Tennessee

Steve Chapman
Times & Seasons Music/BMI/2021

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released June 16, 2021
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