I'M COMING VIRGINIA
Donald Heywood (m) Will Marion Cook (l)  1926


as rec by Maxine Sullivan  
Nov 4th 1955 New York


also rec by-
Ethel Waters w Will Marion Cook & his Singing Orch '26
Thomas "Fats" Waller w Fletcher Henderson & his Orch '27
Bing Crosby & Al Rinker w Paul Whiteman 7 his Orch '27
Bix Beiderbecke & Frankie Trumbauer '27
The Original Indiana Five '27
The Rene Dumont Jazz Band '27
Arthur Briggs & his Savoy Syncopaters '27
Frank Sylvano w Jules Herbuveaux & his Orch '28
Bee Palmer '28
Noble Sissle & his Orch '29
Maxine Sullivan w Claude Thornhill & his Orch '37
Jack Teagarden & The Modernaires w Paul Whiteman & his Orch '38
Artie Shaw & his Orch '39
The New Orleans Feetwarmers '41
Jimmy Rushing '58
Gene Krupa & his Orch '50's
Tony Bennett '61
Stephane Grappelli '81
Dick Hyman 2001
Al Cohn
Erroll Garner
Steve Lacy
Django Reinhardt




I'm comin',
I'm comin' Virginia,
I'm comin' to stay;
Dont hold it agin me
For runnin' away.


I've tried to forget you
But found I was wrong;
'Neath your bright southern moon
Once more I'll croon
An old familiar tune.


And if I can win ya,
I'll never more roam;
I'm comin' Virginia,
My Dixieland home.


Been a year since you seen me,
That's an awfully long time!
Don't want nothin' inbetween me
And that old home of mine.


I'm so tired and so lonely,
Every hour seems a day,
For there's one and just one only
Understands when I say;


I'm comin' Virginia,
I'm comin' to stay;
Dont hold it agin me
For runnin' away.


I've tried to forget you
But found I was wrong, all wrong;
'Neath your bright southern moon
Once more I'll croon
An old familiar tune.


And if I can win ya,
I'll never more roam;
I'm comin' Virginia,
My Dixieland home.


I'm comin',
I'm comin' Virginia,
My Dixieland home.










(Contributed by Peter Akers - January 2011)