The stories behind Virginia - Tidewater Circuit

• Tidewater Circuit: Virginia's Song for Connecting Mountain and Coast — Virginia - Tidewater Circuit follows a biomedical team linking mountain clinics with the state's coastal hospitals.

Lyrics

From the red clay road by the

Blue Ridge Bend We loaded cases before sunrise again

A cooler in the back and a map on the dash

Names of small towns written in pencil ash from heaven and

hills to the harbor cranes we carry a promise through sun

and rain

Virginia, open every door

From mountain clinics to the Tidewater shore

We bring the signal where the old lines fade

Rural hands and city minds in the same brigade

Virginia, let the whole state see

Care can cross a county, a river

A history

In Staunton break and Norfolk rain

A nurse checks numbers on a midnight train

A lab in Richmond answers before noon

While the family doctor hums an old mountain tune

The biomedical team keeps moving on

Licking porch light towns to the urban dawn

Virginia, open every door

From mountain clinics to the Tidewater shore

We bring the signal where the old lines fade

Rural hands and city minds in the same brigade

Virginia, let the whole state see

Care can cross a county, a river, a

history

At Chincoteague, salt rides in on the breeze

And Fredericksburg oaks hold their leaves

A screen lights up in a farmhouse room

A specialist speaks and the worry gives room

No town too far, no patient unseen,

one connected pulse running

bright and clean.

Past old courthouse squares and oyster docks, past

church bell mornings and

And loadin' clocks,

we learn every road by the stories it keeps and plant new

hope where the river runs deep.

Virginia,

open every door From mountain clinics to the Tidewater

shore We bring the signal where the old lines fade

Rural hands and city minds in the same brigade

Virginia, hear the counties agree

The future of healing belongs to

everybody Everybody.

So raise the hood and let the engine turn.

There's a better way in every place we learn.

From the Appalachians down to the

Bay,

Virginia's connected,

and we're on our way.