Dicho, wherever it originates, it ain't the Kazee text. Here is my transcription of Kazee's recording - in the second stanza, it sounds to me like he is singing 'curly', but it could be 'color'. [Dale will be pleased to note that I used the American spelling, albeit reluctantly].

EAST VIRGINIA
(Traditional)

Oh, when I left old East Virginia
North Carolina I did roam
There I courted a fair, young lady
What was her name I did not know

Her hair it was of a dark brown color (curly?)
Her cheeks they were a rosy red
Upon her breast she wore a ribbon
Oh don't I wish that I was dead

Her papa said that we might marry
Her mama said it would not do
Oh come here dear and I will tell you
I will tell you what I'll do

Some dark night we'll take a ramble
I will run away with you

For I'd rather be in some dark holler
Where the sun refuse to shine
As for you to be some other man's woman
Never on earth to call you mine

Source: transcription of Buell Kazee 'East Virginia' recorded 20 April 1927 in New York City. Issued Brunswick Br 154 in November 1927. Reissued on Various Artists 'Anthology of American Folk Music Vol III' (Harry Smith) Smithsonian/Folkways SFW 40090.

--Stewie.