There was a girl I loved so dearly
She lived away back in the hills
When the bluebird sings, I miss my darling
She loved me I know, she always will

   There's a bluebird singing (there's a bluebird singing)
   In the Blue Ridge mountains (in the Blue Ridge mountains)
   It's calling me back to my home
   Oh, I can hear (Oh I can hear)
   The bluebirds calling (the bluebirds calling)
   Calling me back to my home

Now tonight I'm far from the blue ridge mountains
Far from my home back in the hills
But I'm going back to the blue ridge mountains
These memories they haunt me still

When I reached home I was so lonely
The one I loved had gone away
That bad news came from her mother
She's sleeping there beneath the clay