you think you'll find some mountains    in western colorado   fifty weeks of snowy peaks   is where you're gonna be   but babe the rocky mountains are gradually eroding   the hills of coors are nothing more   than blue ridge wannabes      a turkey on it's belly   a chicken on it's back   anyway you look at it    you'll find her on the map   she revels in the seasons   shakes hands with the north   hugs the land of dixie while dancing on the porch      you think that autumns in new england   are the greatest of them all   but give me sweet virginia for the fireworks of fall   the prettiest october in all the fifty states   just drive up to the skyline    park the car and wait      so grow up colorado   excuse me tennessee    if you don't mind, north caroline   here's where i want to be      (chorus)   when you're talking home    you mean the old dominion   just southeast of heaven to the surf and the hills   she's the best of thirteen sisters   and thirty seven more   sweet sweet virginia always keeps an open door      they're fiddlin' in galax   pickin' up in floyd   and in the land of patsy cline   they're songs you can't avoid   when you're walking back after midnight   i'll fall to pieces, too   i'm crazy back in baby's arms with sweet dreams of you      they're sailing down in norfolk   skiing up in bryce   climbing up the devil's stairs against the ranger's advice   they're harvesting in loudoun to shenandoah winds   and in the land near washington they're rooting for the 'skins   fight for old d.c.      so grow up colorado   excuse me tennesse   if you don't mind, north caroline   here's where i want to be      (chorus)      pack up your impala   and make your move out west   past the blue ridge mountains    you'll find you passed the best   and when your dreams have ended   where mountains are concerned   me and sweet virginia will await for your return      (chorus)