Scott Roley - Virginia Melody lyrics

I still remember When I first met you It was so many years ago In a small town Northwest Virginia Where the laurel and dogwood grow It was the last days Of November The leaves you held were crimson gold In the wind I still remember The forest sensed you and no one told I would chase you Down by the river I'd sing your name out and go rushing in Never knowing What danger lurked there Never caring that I could not swim My days with you Were always happy Then my memory becomes unclear It seems I lost you Not by the river But when I finally learned to fear I would stroll down Beneath the cottonwoods Learning to walk in cadence with your rhyme What joy to find Your simple rhythm Has taken over and is guiding mine I was only Just a boy then By a stroke of luck I'm now a man So much older Yet not wiser Lord help me be a child again