There's a version of 'Old Virginny' by Lee Monroe Presnell on the second CD issue devoted to the Warner Collection: Various Artists 'Nothing Seems Better to Me' Appleseed APR CD 1036. It wouldn't be easy to transcribe - does anyone have a copy of the Warner texts? The recording is by Lee Monroe Presnell who told the Warners that he learned it as a little boy and that it was one of the oldest songs he heard his mother sing. The Warners' note gives a reference to the four versions in Sharp II. The Meade, Spottswood, Meade country muscic sources biblio-discography includes it under the heading 'Miscellaneous Love Lyrics' and its earliest reference is also to Sharp II. The British antecedent appears to be a trifle elusive - or perhaps even illusory.

--Stewie.