Lyr. Add: COME ALL YOU VIRGINIA GIRLS
Trad., singing of Judy Cook

Come all you Virginia girls, listen to my noise,
Don't you court no West Virginia boys.
If you do, your fortune will be:
Johnny cake, venison and sassafras tea!
Johnny cake and venison and sassafras tea!

When they come a courtin', well, I'll tell you what they wear:
Log black coat, just about to tear,
Old straw hat, more brim than crown,
A pair a woolen socks they wear the whole year round!
A pair a woolen socks they wear the whole year round!

When they come a courtin', well, I'll tell you what they'll say.
First they'll say: "Did your daddy shoot a bear?"
Then they'll say, as they sit down,
Honey, can you bake your johnny cake brown?
Honey, can you bake your johnny cake brown?

When they build a house, they build it with log walls
Don't have windows, none at all!
Clapboard roof, and an old slab door.
Sandstone chimney and a puncheon floor,
Sandstone chimney and a puncheon floor.

If you marry them, they'll take you to the Allegheny hills,
There you'll live, there you'll make your will.
There you'll stay and stare in space
For that is the way of the West Virginia race.
For that is the way of the West Virginia race.

So, come all you Virginia girls, listen to my noise.
Don't you court no West Virginia boys.
If you do, your fortune will be:
Johnny cake, venison and sassafras tea.
Johnny cake, venison and sassafras tea.

http://judycook.net/ceijc03/CD3-6.HTM

The Traditional Ballad Index is headed with the title, Come All You Virginia Girls, but I couldn't find lyrics with that title in mudcat.
Joe Offer posted the T.B.I. entry here, so I will add a few versions of this widespread song in this thread. Also see thread: East/West Virginia Girls/Boys 2 part, thread 136771.
East/West

The many versions seem to have the 1841 minstrel song, "De Free Nigger," as the origin.