Virginia
written by Bruce Robison
Album: "Eleven Stories"
4/9/06
NOTE: I'm not 100% sure of this, so please, any corrects are more than welcome.


INTRO: G

               G
You said you'd go just for a year and I watched the taillights disappear
     Am                                G
Your words like old footprints upon my mind
          G       
Yeah your family all was gone, but you couldn't imagine leavin' long
       Am                                  G
I said you only get your life for this one time
    F         C               F                C
But what do I recall when the world is all but changin'
       F                C                D
In the mirror while I'm standin' like an old stop sign

     G
Have courage, said the man, when you see your whole life turnin' out
Am                              G
Nothin' like you'd ever seen or planned
                G
He said there's always another day, and anyhow that's the only way
     Am                                  G
It's better just to learn that while you can
               F                 C          F                  C
Well would she stay or would she go, with a girl like that you never know
       F               C        D
What's goin' on in her heart is hard to define


CHORUS:
    F      C
But I'm inclined to say
G                  D       G
Virginia guess you made up your mind


INTRO

         G
Well you taught me how to dance and what it is to take a chance
        Am                                       G
There's learnin' and there's doin', it's not the same
       G
Yeah I held you when you cried on the mornin' that your daddy died
          Am                               G
If you're livin', you hurt, there's no one to blame
         F           C                  F                  C
Yeah and hell I do alright, but there's times that I can't sleep at night
      F                    C                      D
And I think about things I didn't know would stay with me all this time


CHORUS


SOLO: G  Am   G   Am   G

     F        C                F    C
Yeah years go by and you don't come home at all
   F                C                D
Or write or call or tell me what you did or didn't find

         G
Yeah the young girl that I married and the babies that she carred
        Am                              G
Are the stars that my whole world turns around
      G
And I guess she's just like me, and she didn't care too much to see
     Am                               G
What life was like outside our little town
     F                   C             F              C
Yeah mornin's, there are some, where I wonder if I've chosen
   F                    C              G
Anything that I've ever done before in my whole life


CHORUS:
           F      C
But that's all behind me now
G                  D
Virginia guess you made up
F     C
I'm inclined to say
G                  D
Virginia guess you made up
F       C
I don't mind to see
G                  D       G
Virginia guess you made up your mind


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